Owen Paterson Quotes
No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.
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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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I believe I drank too much wine last night at Hurstbourne; I know not how else to account for the shaking of my hand today. You will kindly make allowance therefore for any indistinctness of writing, by attributing it to this venial error.
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I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.
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Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
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I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.
