George Osborne Quotes

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• The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Today
  • Fighting

• Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Passion
  • Moral
  • Better

• I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Heart
  • Success
  • Failure

• I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Girl
  • Fashion
  • Body

• One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Think
  • Culture

• Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • You

• If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Find

• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Famous
  • More
  • Fame

• I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Fashion

• Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Book
  • Silence
  • Speak

• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• I work with brands that I personally connect with or personally use. For example, I was already driving the Suzuki Hayabusa long before I started endorsing Suzuki.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Long
  • Driving

• A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • American
  • Government
  • Exercise

• To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Real
  • You

• We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Book
  • Think

• Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • May
  • History

• The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Prayer
  • Image
  • Hungry

• Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

  

  Jim Ryun
  • War
  • House

• Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fall
  • Kings
  • Tyranny

• The Internet has made us richer, freer, connected and informed in ways its founders could not have dreamt of. It has also become a vector of attack, espionage, crime and harm.

  

  George Osborne