George Osborne Quotes
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
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Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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Brexit is for the richest in our country: they can afford recessions.
