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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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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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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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 all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.
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Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.
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I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.
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In isolated or country places no man's life is safe.
