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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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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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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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.
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Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.
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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.
