George Osborne Quotes
We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.
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I grew up on films.
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.
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I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
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Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it.
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My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.
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We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.
