William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw Quotes
I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
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I will keep working hard!
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.
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The theory of population genetics and experiments on other organisms show that substantial changes can occur in the span of less than 100 generations, which for man reaches back to the time of the Roman Empire.
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When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
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I do not think I have the right to determine the political future of Syria, be it with or without al-Assad. This is for the Syrians themselves to decide. Nobody has the right to claim the rights that belong to the people of another country.
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I don't think people have fully processed how deeply television has changed the political process in our own world. Political parties have become vestiges of what they were and individuals with large amounts of money can leapfrog over that process, which can have a positive mediating effect. And so I think there are things to worry about.
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I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
