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 haven't always voted for the same party, mostly because I find that strange. One thing I've never quite understood is when people say 'I'm a Conservative' or 'I'm Labour,' before even hearing what the person running stands for or wants to change.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.
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There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.
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The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.
