Tim Yeo Quotes
It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums
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You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
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As tragic as Benghazi was, its importance pales next to killing Osama bin Laden.
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It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'
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The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.
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Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
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I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with Seinfeld all the time. He did it with Colombo, too, set the scene.
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I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.
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Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.
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Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom.
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One large study 127 sets of identical twins and 111 sets of fraternal twins recently found that in 51 percent of the identical sets both twins had ADD, while only 33 percent of those in the fraternal group shared the ADD diagnosis.
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It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums
