Michael Gove Quotes

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

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• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Time
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• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Know
  • First
  • Boring

• As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Die
  • Cancer
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• You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Character
  • Learn
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• Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time
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  • Incredible

• I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Way
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  • Afraid

• I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Past
  • Feel

• I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Me
  • Saying
  • Newspapers

• Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Growth
  • Inspired

• I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Bores

• In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Thinking
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  • Alabama

• I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Live
  • Playing
  • Consequences

• I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Movies
  • Fans

• Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Decisions

• What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.

  

  Jack Vance
  • World
  • Men
  • Peace

• I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.

  

  James Wolk
  • Work

• Canadians need to start thinking of themselves as a petrostate, and they need to start thinking of the kinds of controls needed to protect the country from the excesses of oil.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • Thinking
  • Country

• 'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

  

  Antony Jay
  • Responsibility

• We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Action
  • Violence
  • Sad

• I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Band

• I emcee how I feel for the moment. I'll always be influenced by Tribe, but my EP and LP have a lot of different flavors! I'll keep it vintage Tribe if Tribe decides to do another LP... which, in my heart, I'd love to do for the fans.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
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  • Heart
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• I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

  

  Michael Gove
  • Different
  • Expectations
  • Starting