Oswald Mosley Quotes
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.
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What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
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You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
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I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
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Nothing beats a great smile.
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We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
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I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.
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I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.
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Liberty is security. Freedom is security.
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If someone comes to you with, 'It's my kid's graduation,' you don't tell them, 'Sorry, you can't go to that.' You just don't do that. You figure out some other way.
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Now I'm a big fan of X-files. I had to see what all the fuss is about, and I love it.
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That consecrated combination of private interests and public plunders.
