George Osborne Quotes
The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.
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I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.
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I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.
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If they have entered into the spirit if these rules, and if the rules have made sufficient impression on them to become rooted and established in their minds, they will feel how much difference there is between what is said here and what a few logicians may perhaps have written by chance approximating to it in a few passages of their works.
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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
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The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.
