William Hague Quotes
When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself - no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.
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I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.
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We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.
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I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
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Though the views of members of the House and Senate are as divergent as the people we represent, we bear the responsibility to work through our political differences and get things done. That's our job.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.
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When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself - no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.
