Tim Yeo Quotes
For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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Schooling is so important.
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I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.
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When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
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BecauseHe is all-powerful, must all-good, too, follow?I judge but by the fruits-and they are bitter-Which I must feed on for a fault not mine.
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There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I'm an essayist. And this is a genre that has existed for a few thousand years. Ever heard of Cicero? So these rules that I'm working under are not mine but rather were established by writers who recognized the difference between the hard research of journalism and the kind of inquiry of mind that characterizes the essay.
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Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.
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No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.
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For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.
