Woodrow Wyatt Quotes
Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
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If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
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I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.
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Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.
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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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The attitude among the people I knew was, 'Fleur wants to be a singer' but it was never, 'Go for it. You can do it.' Everyone was cynical because we'd never seen anyone where we came from do it.
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Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.
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Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.
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I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.
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Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. Unless the concept of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it can hardly hope to succeed.
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No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.
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Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.
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I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
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The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation is lost when a monarchy is abolished. If buckingham palace and windsor castle were transformed into museums, if one politician competed against another for president of the republic, Britain would be a sadder and less interesting place. Our politicians are not men such as could challenge more than a thousand years of history.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves
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As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But there are some issues where you have to draw the line - where you have to stand up and be counted, and you have to do the right thing. I think climate change is firmly in that category.
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There is no good in knowing people when you are going right away from them in a short time, and may never meet them again.
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Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.
