John Prescott Quotes
We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot.
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I am an economist, not an astrologer.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
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I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.
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You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
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If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
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By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
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A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
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You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters.
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I learned that people don't buy anything from unknown stores.
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How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.
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The '80s was a wild decade, and I had some fantastic times. And I did some really fun work.
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I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill.
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Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot.
