John Hutton (Baron Hutton of Furness) Quotes
Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.
Quotes to Explore
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' – you are inhabiting that 'I.'
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I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
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You always want your films to go as far as they can.
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You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.
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A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!
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There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man-but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
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I think I've had extremes of being unable to exist outside of my own head, and then I only am existing for other people... There's a middle ground where I should take care of myself and other people.
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I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.
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SETI is probably the most important quest of our time, and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
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The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.
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Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.
