William E. Gladstone Quotes

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

William E. Gladstone

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• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

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• I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

  

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• I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

  

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• I am surrounded by great people.

  

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• I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!

  

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• At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

  

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• We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

  

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• Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.

  

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• Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

  

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• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

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• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

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• I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

  

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• There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

  

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• I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

  

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• I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

  

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• My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off.

  

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• Many people don't wake up. They fight against a difficult time, shut the window and become more bitter. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you see it, we are served up those opportunities over and over in our life. So if you've shut the window, don't worry, another hard time is going to come around the corner - to give you that chance all over again.

  

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• Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.

  

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• It is one broken person talking to another broken person. And there is power in that.

  

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• I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.

  

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• If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Mankind