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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When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.
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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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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
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I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
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Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish loves: The decorative manias we obey Die in grimaces round us every day, Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice Which utters an absurd command - Rejoice.
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The whitewashing of windows can provide very effective protection against fire resulting from the heat-flash from nuclear explosions.
