Harold Wilson Quotes

Hughie, get your tanks off my lawn.

Harold Wilson

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• The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • United States
  • Muslim

• I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Party
  • Principles
  • Democrat

• I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Home
  • Together
  • Know

• An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Power
  • Powerful
  • Impact

• The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Business
  • True

• It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Want

• I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Time
  • Good
  • Perspective

• You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • You
  • Know
  • First

• 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. I mean, when I write something in the press, the day after in the fish market, people will be discussing it.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Day

• It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Independent
  • Psychology

• I don't preach or try to impress my views upon people.

  

  Raine Maida
  • People
  • Try
  • Impress

• We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Power
  • Abuse

• Sharing instructions about how to perform better for others is very different than sharing feelings about life experiences that make us happy or sad.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Different
  • Happy

• What a strange and unfamiliar world if everyone were treated according to his deserts!

  

  Jack Vance
  • World

• By nation of origin of our people, by 2050, America will be a Third World country. Our great cities will all look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of the Southwest will look like Juarez and Tijuana...

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Death
  • Opinion

• I was an infant when I was living in Canada, but when I was adopted, I was a baby, so I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts, and I returned to Saskatchewan as - in my late teens.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Up
  • Baby

• I go to Union Square Park, mostly to take care of squirrels.

  

  Bernhard Goetz

• They have acted like carnivores who used the world to enrich only themselves, and whether it's the election of Donald Trump, or Brexit, the elites have realized that the people have stopped listening to them, that the people want to determine their futures and, in a perfectly democratic framework, regain control of their destiny.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • People
  • World
  • Control

• Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.

  

  Mark White Spin Doctors

• One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

  

  Ben Whishaw
  • Theatre

• Hughie, get your tanks off my lawn.

  

  Harold Wilson