Zac Goldsmith Quotes
I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I don't have time to be negative.
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I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
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To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
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I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.
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I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.
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I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.
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My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.
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We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.
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I discovered at the age of five that I could sing, and I realised people liked it. The sound that came out made people happy, so I kept doing it.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.
