Ed Balls Quotes
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
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When I eat biscuits, I also eat grits.
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One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!'
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The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.
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I've always wanted to do a shoot with snakes - big snakes, like pythons.
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Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
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We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.
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A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind.
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Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
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So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.
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I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.
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We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.
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You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
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Ed Balls
