George Osborne Quotes
Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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I love New York. Love it.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
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The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.
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I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.
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The Glittering Prizes
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I'm lucky I live near Whole Foods... so if I'm hungry, I can walk in there and grab something yummy... already made... or make it myself. I love to cook. I make a killer marinara sauce.
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Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.
