Michael Gove Quotes
If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.
Quotes to Explore
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
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It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.
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Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.
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Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less.
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That boy from the music shop—he might be everything you believe he is. But in the eyes of our society, he is a convicted criminal. He has nothing to lose. He is stuck where he is. On the bottom. While you are walking away from the greatest opportunity a girl can have. To win. To become independent. To achieve international fame and choose the life you desire.
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Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.
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If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.
