Jose Manuel Barroso Quotes
I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.
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No matter how successful you become... there's always that sense that you could be better.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.
