George Osborne Quotes
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
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The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.
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I could use a little monotony in my life. Spontaneity is exhausting.
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Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.
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One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into writing, presumably figuring that if a drooling gum-brain like me can scrape a living witlessly pawing at a keyboard, there's hope for anyone.
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I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.
