Nigel Lawson Quotes
The successful sale of British Telecom... reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership of British enterprise. Investment in shares has begun to take its place, with ownership of a home and either a bank or building society deposit, as a way for ordinary people to participate in enterprise and wealth creation. We are seeing the birth of people's capitalism.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
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I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.
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What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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I can't apply $3 billion in capital to the tech industry. It wouldn't work. But in infrastructure, education, I can make a real difference. I can change someone's life, for the better, permanently. If I can improve a kid's education, I can increase their salary later on and for decades.
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Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time.
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.
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You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.
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The successful sale of British Telecom... reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership of British enterprise. Investment in shares has begun to take its place, with ownership of a home and either a bank or building society deposit, as a way for ordinary people to participate in enterprise and wealth creation. We are seeing the birth of people's capitalism.
