Nigel Lawson Quotes
Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn’t know about something bad, it wasn’t happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
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I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.
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A lot of actors, you can't get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they're always telling you something.
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If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.
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The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
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A lot of my friends who are white are like, 'Dude, I can't get an audition; it's all Hispanic and black.' It's about time.
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Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.
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I've been a fan of Bunji's freestyling since the first time I saw him perform, back in the early 2000s.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.
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Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply still today: Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often. Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you're scared, look into your partner's eyes — you will feel better.
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Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.
