Nigel Lawson Quotes

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

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• t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Use
  • Anybody
  • Blockchain

• I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Study
  • Military
  • Biology

• I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Love

• I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Immigration
  • Legal

• Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Giving
  • Explain
  • Does

• Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Wisdom
  • Philosophical
  • Beliefs

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Laws
  • Now And Then

• When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Lost
  • Perspective

• I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.

  

  Nate Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Industry
  • Reach
  • Capability

• My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.

  

  Wally Amos
  • You
  • Lost
  • Company

• Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Up
  • Father
  • Growing

• I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Education
  • Football
  • Fight

• We gotta be proud to be Latino. It's almost like we cheating because we're American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • Live
  • American

• People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • People
  • Money
  • Experience

• What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Concerns

• I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Enjoy
  • Speaking

• To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Choose