William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw Quotes
The whitewashing of windows can provide very effective protection against fire resulting from the heat-flash from nuclear explosions.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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We will not lose this election for lack of money.
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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El corazón es un infinito de pesadísimas cadenas, encadenando puñaditos de aire.
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So now the devil's in my soul.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice - not just on paper.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
