William Hague Quotes
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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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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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.
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Shocked disbelief greets suggestions that many women may take pleasure in rape fantasies, established long ago by Nancy Friday in her pioneering 1973 study, My Secret Garden, and dramatized today by the staggering mass-market popularity of Harlequin Romances, where heroines are overwhelmed by passionate, impetuous men.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.
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Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
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I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.
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Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.
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What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
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Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.
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Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!
