George Osborne Quotes
You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.
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A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
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You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.
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Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.
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It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.
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You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
