Michael Gove Quotes
One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.
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How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
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So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient for inquiry. A stepping-stone version of prior true belief seems reasonable, though perhaps we should accept only an even weaker view: a stepping-stone version of roughly-accurate beliefs.
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Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.
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If you don't have the balls to brake late, that's your problem.
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One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.
