George Osborne Quotes

I don't want to watch 'Newsnight.' I just don't understand those politicians who genuinely want to watch it for pleasure.

George Osborne

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• Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Profit
  • Industries

• Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Past
  • Fashion
  • Inspiration

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Goal
  • Ask

• In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are all owned by the government, so our shows are subject to censorship by the networks. Every now and then, we are told that certain subjects cannot be talked about. There are frustrations.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Government
  • Now
  • Censorship

• Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Great
  • Virtues
  • Call

• I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Work
  • Single
  • Day

• When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Guy

• I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Day
  • Period

• Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • True
  • Yourself

• I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Way
  • Single
  • Regret

• Managers today come up against a few more communication barriers. One is the pressure of time. Listening carefully takes time, and managers have little of that to spare. In today’s business culture especially, with its emphasis on speed, already pressed managers may give short shrift to the slower art of one-on-one communication.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• And the cloud that took the form(When the rest of Heaven was blue)Of a demon in my view.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Rest
  • Heaven
  • Blue

• 'Consigned to everlasting fire,' said Nicholas in a faint voice. He had gone white as chalk.'No, you medieval imbecile!' Edward clenched his fists. 'You still have no grasp of the truth, have you? Leave your angels and devils in the trash of history, where they belong.'

  

  Kage Baker
  • Truth
  • History
  • Fire

• Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Moving

• The telephone companies that were alleged to have helped their country after 9/11 did so because they are patriotic and they certainly helped us and they helped us save lives.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Country
  • Patriotic

• No one is 'the next' anyone, especially if that person is still here, doing their thing, as she Mariah clearly is. The comparisons people have made to me are so flattering, but I think it's insensitive to the people I'm compared to.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • People
  • She

• All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

  

  Alan Dershowitz
  • Truth

• The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

  

  Polykarp Kusch
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Science

• I like it when a script shows you something new, and you can learn something through the journey of a film rather than being told things you already know.

  

  Lucy Fry
  • Journey

• It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Beginning

• With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Songs
  • Genius
  • Carry

• I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

  

  Zac Efron
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• I don't want to watch 'Newsnight.' I just don't understand those politicians who genuinely want to watch it for pleasure.

  

  George Osborne