Michael Gove Quotes

I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it.

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• Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Night
  • Best
  • Ideas

• Practices were tough.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Tough
  • Were
  • Practices

• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Difficult

• Language does not make one an elite.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Language
  • Does
  • Elite

• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Born
  • London
  • India

• I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Shine

• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Years
  • Broken

• I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • Interested
  • Cry

• The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Action
  • Environmental

• You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Know

• Diet cola is my absolute favorite drink in the world; I used to drink four cans a day. But to help me cut down, I've turned it into a treat. Now, instead of having dessert, I'll have a can of diet soda. Putting a limit on how often I can drink it has helped me appreciate it more.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • World
  • Help
  • Day

• In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Heart
  • Process
  • Short

• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Sometimes
  • Mad
  • Communicate

• I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.

  

  Beau Garrett
  • People
  • Years
  • Model

• One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Why
  • Know
  • Easy

• Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • You
  • Know
  • Presence

• Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Future
  • Wish
  • Band

• Woman, self-centred, would never be absorbed by any relation it would be only an experience to her as to man. It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to Woman is her whole existence; she also is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • She
  • Experience
  • Truth

• Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal.

  

  Nandita Das
  • Ideas
  • Groups
  • Racist

• You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

  

  Rand Paul
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  • Know
  • Government

• I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it.

  

  Michael Gove
  • Country
  • Want
  • Path