George Osborne Quotes

Our message to China is very clear: we want the U.K. to be China's best partner in the West.

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• Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Imagination

• I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Know
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Know
  • Hair
  • Drive

• I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Friends
  • Possible

• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• I don't write about Google except to insult the company.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Company
  • Insult
  • Google

• My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Me

• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Happy
  • Pain

• I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Different
  • Think
  • Sports

• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Movies

• The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Like
  • Looking
  • Detective

• It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Dad

• President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • People
  • Lost
  • Lead

• I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Think
  • Influence

• The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is, 'How does it end?' Endings carry tremendous weight with readers; if they don't like the ending, chances are they'll say they didn't like the work. Failed endings are also the most common problems editors have with submitted works.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Question

• The only thing I did is, I wore the same pair of socks in every decathlon I was ever in.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Same
  • Only
  • Socks

• It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

  

  Zalmay Khalilzad
  • People
  • Important
  • Free

• I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Government

• Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Die

• When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • People
  • Air
  • Dresses

• When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • She
  • Together
  • Friend

• For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Me
  • Best
  • Partner

• My dream was to play for Alabama - football, basketball.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Dream
  • Football
  • Basketball

• Our message to China is very clear: we want the U.K. to be China's best partner in the West.

  

  George Osborne
  • Partner