Allan H. Meltzer Quotes
There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
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I have creative energy in me that needs to come out one way or another, but that's where Revamp comes in.
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Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
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Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit. That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.
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There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.
