William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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I'm very neurotic is what my closet says about me. It's always in great order.
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You never know how much you can do in practice because you never know if you're going to play or not, but the main thing is stay ready.
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I lived in Italy for a number of years and I was really digging around trying to get my hands dirty, trying to learn about Italian music. And what I ended up gravitating towards was this stuff from the '50s and '60s and maybe early '70s, where there were these incredibly talented pop singers that weren't using pop bands.
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Balenciaga was my religion. Since I'm a believer, for me, there's Balenciaga, and the good Lord.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
