John White Geary Quotes
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
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When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then went on to adult books. When I was 12 or 13, I read all of Steinbeck and Hemingway. I thought I should read everything a writer writes.
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There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
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In isolated or country places no man's life is safe.
