Alan Webb Quotes
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
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Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'
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When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.
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Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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I think the idea that in a riddle there are two answers or two doors and that you have to pick the right one is almost sort of delightful to kids who are making so many choices every day and who often don't know for a while if they've made the right one. It's not as if you make a choice and then *ding* you have some sense of "oh, this is perfect and I'm happy" - it's never that simple.
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.
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A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.
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I thought I could surprise those guys and open up a margin and steal the race.
