Francis Maude Quotes
We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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No circumstance, person, or difficulty can stop the plans and the promises of God.
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My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.
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In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so brightly lit that you can read a book after dark; in other places across our global body, there are blackouts and curfews every night.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.
