Benjamin Lloyd Stormont Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft Quotes
All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.
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Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.
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At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
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And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.
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I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
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I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.
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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
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We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.
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English superiority and American obedience.
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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
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Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I.
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All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.
