William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw Quotes
The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.
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To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'
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I'm an urban act.
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Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. And John, it will not be long.
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In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
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Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.
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The usual is always mediocre. When nature takes it into her head to make a man, she fits him with her own equipment and educates him in her own school.
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There are two things that I feel very happy about from my tenure as Director of Health in Hong Kong: we introduced primary health care and preventive services from conception to old age; and we worked with herbalists to put Traditional Chinese Medicine on a firm footing of promotion, development and regulation.
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My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death.
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I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.
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You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.
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I am not a fan of Obamacare. But I was bound and determined to try to comply with the law. I've done everything in my power to try to do that.
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I'm a real goof-ball deep down. It's always been my thing to make people like me.
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I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.
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Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.
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When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul.
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'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
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The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.
