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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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.
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We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.
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It's a situation that you wouldn't put your worst enemy in. Obviously, none of us will ever know what the truth is, but I believe him. And for him to have to go through this, it's something that we can't really comprehend.
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I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you have these trailers that have these little ovens and kitchenettes. A lot of actors never use them, but I would cook lunch just about every day.
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There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.
