Dennis Skinner Quotes
I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
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With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.
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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
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The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.
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Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
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The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
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There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
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I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.
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You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.
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The value of actions lies in their timing.
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The most important thing for the IETF to do is to continue to organise and manage itself to develop the highest quality technical work and to do so in an efficient and open way that is inviting to new people.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Faeries and vampires were glittery now? Honestly.
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And sometimes you're not noticing a little eye movement that's hilarious. So it all kind of gets figured out in post. And that guy you were watching was this guy Murray Miller, who's actually not an actor, he's a writer that Rodney and I are friends with. He's just crazily funny, especially when hitting on people.
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I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax.
