George Osborne Quotes
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
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I never co-write. I've tried it before, and I just can't do it.
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War is a great asshole magnet.
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Here, in the bare dark face of nightA calm unhurried eye draws sight -We see in what we think we fearThe cloudings of our thought made clear
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As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that...
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I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
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You should be watching 'White Collar' because it's a fun, intelligent procedural infused with a lot of great character writing by Jeff Eastin.
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I journal at the end of every day and just keep track of how things are going.
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Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.
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When I perform, I usually wear wigs because I love them.
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My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
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There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.
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If we're playing and competing at the level we want to and we know we can, then nothing else is really going to matter.
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The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'
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Obviously I've had crushes, and I've tried to make things work with people, but it doesn't when you're away so much. I like to think, 'Don't go looking for it; it'll happen when it wants to happen.
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Being Nigerian is a strong part of my identity. Being American is a strong part of my identity. And there are important parts of who I am that really have nothing to do with my national connection.
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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
