Ed Whitfield Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.
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I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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Change has no constituency—and a perceived revolution has even less.
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I will not campaign for any party.
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I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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We want all the information because we do intend to get to the bottom of why some of these insurance policies have lapsed.
