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.

  

  Frances McDormand
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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...

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
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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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• I have learnt sketching, drawing, singing, dancing, rifle shooting, paragliding.

  

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• I wanted to bring something to 'Celebrity Apprentice' to let America know that you don't have to be back-stabbing and mean-spirited in order to a challenge.

  

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• I'm not responsible enough to have puppies.

  

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• Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

  

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• New York was scary, coming from the Midwest. At first, I thought I'd come in all cocky, like, 'I'm gonna bring this town to its knees!' After about a month, I was like, 'I wanna go home.'

  

  Chris Farley
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• I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.

  

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• The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country.

  

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• There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• I pretty much like all music except for country. I'm not a big fan of country.

  

  Ashley Benson
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• This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

  

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• The likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns were true champions. There were some incredible fights between us, and I was happy to give them all an opportunity to fight me.

  

  Marvin Hagler
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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.

  

  Nigel Lawson
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