John Prescott Quotes
That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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I think I look great in pretty much everything... kidding! For the red carpet, I like to do really natural eyes and a nice sleek ponytail. Sometimes I'm into a really dark rouge, purple bold lip.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can.
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If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!
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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.
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I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.
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I've been making deals all my life.
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As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
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I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.
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All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery ph in a rural area. And I didn't have any white neighbors at all. So all my kids with whom I fought and wrestled and went fishing and worked in the field and so forth were African-Americans. And that was my life. So when I got to be school age, we had to separate during the daytime, but I always felt like I was in an alien environment when I was in Plains, Georgia with white kids. I was eager to get back where I belonged with my black playmates.
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I can't worry about what I'm doing to be the National Player of the Year; it's what am I doing to help my team be successful?
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I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.
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That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.
