Nigel Lawson Quotes
It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.
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I've got loads of nieces and nephews.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
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Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.
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I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
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It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
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In greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...
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I know that sounds almost horribly cheesy, but that is what has to happen if you're gonna make a relationship work for a long time: You have to keep learning new things that are interesting about this person or having them catch you off guard and have these little moments of intense appreciation.
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You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.
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I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.
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I think that there is not any group of people in this country who do not believe that they should be a part of the process.
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'Ugly Betty' taught me everything about fashion.
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I have learnt sketching, drawing, singing, dancing, rifle shooting, paragliding.
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Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.
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You gotta flex. You gotta look good, bro. Especially coming from the outskirts and wanting to take over the whole Atlanta.
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Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
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A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.
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It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.
