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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• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

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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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• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

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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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• What is there in life except one's ideas. Good air, good friend, what is there in life? Is it ideas that I believe?

  

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• I'm not unmindful of man's seeming need for faith; I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle.

  

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• To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.

  

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• I had a second-degree-blue-belt test, and I broke two boards with my right foot, and the next day I walked into school, and no one ever picked on me again. I suddenly believed in myself and respected myself. I had some inkling of my power, so the bullying stopped instantly.

  

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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
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  • Mankind