Nigel Lawson Quotes
I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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I moved to Paris for two years, then to London, then New York in 2002. In that time, I also lived in Japan, Italy, Germany - I've been a bit of a gypsy.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Ann Coulter is very popular. She has got a niche. She is a best selling author, but she does not represent Republican women.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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Cadila, India's sixth-largest drugmaker by sales, spent $250 million developing Lipaglyn, a new chemical entity or new discovery, and aims to spend another $150 million to $200 million to launch the drug outside India.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
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Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.
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If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
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You couple a sense of entrepreneurship with an extremely intelligent, technically capable people who understand markets, and that's what you see happening in India. India has a leg up on China.
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It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.
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One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.
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Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.
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I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.
