Norman Tebbit Quotes
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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Look, stranger, on this island now The leaping light for your delight discovers, Stand stable here And silent be, That through the channels of the ear May wander like a river The swaying sound of the sea.
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This game is something Australians really look forward to.
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Churches should be able to decide what kinds of unions are sanctified by their denomination, but not what kinds of unions are accepted in the civil arena.
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I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.
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No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
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I believe every woman should have a flat, a really good wedge, and then the showstopper shoe.
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Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
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My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.
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I never wanted to be in the show business. I wanted to do special effects.
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My mom always taught me to stand up for what I believe in.
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We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
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Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
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The air is crowded with birds - beautiful, tender, intelligent birds - to whom life is a song.
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My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work
