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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Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?
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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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We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.
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I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.
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I love Adult Swim. They give you so much artistic freedom.
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I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'
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If a new artist wants to put out some sort of off-the-wall, crazy deep ballad about the sun or whatever, it might be hard to get traction. It's so much easier for someone established to put out a really heartfelt, deep song and get it played in radio.
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My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work
