John Major Quotes
In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.
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I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I'm into Gucci a lot, like vintage '70s everything. I'm into Versace.
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
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Politics in this country [USA] is always tough. It's always contentious, because this is a big country and a diverse country, and people have strong points of view, and we've got a great diversity of interests.
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It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape.
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In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.
