George Osborne Quotes
We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.
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Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly how they were used; they don't seem to be all that common. Were they horses as we understood them, [or] does the term describe some other animal? Languages don't always and cultures don't always classify things the way we would expect. We have what we call common-sense ways of doing it. They're not common sense; they're just ours. But again, we don't have a strong case there. We're just problem solving there.
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Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.
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A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.
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We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy.
