John Major Quotes
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
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I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
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When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
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Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
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Reaganomics: You start a business in your parents' garage. Obamanomics: You move into your parents' garage.
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From these biased studies come biased social policy. Hundreds of millions of dollars to enforce sanctions against fathers who don’t pay mothers; almost nothing to enforce sanctions against mothers who don’t allow fathers to see children.
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Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, cried my uncle Toby, - but nothing to this. - For my own part, I could not have a heart to curse my dog so.
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[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.
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Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must get off your knees and start doing something positive; head in the right direction! He will send people along the way who will assist you, but you must be doing your part as well.
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Right now, we're not where we ought to be on hybrids.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
