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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This type of paradox is quite characteristic of Zen. It is an attempt to 'break the mind of logic'.
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There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life.'
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Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him.
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I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.
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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
