Andrea Leadsom Quotes
There are so many double standards that seem to be applied only to female MPs. I've had infinite comments about what I'm wearing when the focus should be on what I'm saying.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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It's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'What would you like to do?' Um, yeah karate.
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Saying “I love you forever” won’t hold us together.
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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
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We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.
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There are so many double standards that seem to be applied only to female MPs. I've had infinite comments about what I'm wearing when the focus should be on what I'm saying.
