Gavin Williamson (Gavin Alexander Williamson) Quotes
School strikers should be learning, they shouldn't be bunking off and it's very irresponsible for people to encourage children to do so.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.
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Kotak Mahindra Bank has very significant presence in the West and the North, and our total branch network between these two regions is 80 per cent, and in case of ING Vysya Bank, their network in South is 64 per cent of their total branch network.
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So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.
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I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.
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I state in no uncertain terms: An order to uproot an Arab village or a Jewish settlement violates the most basic of human rights... It's a difficult dilemma.
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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
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Shot through the Heart, And You're to Blame. Darlin' You give love a bad name.
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If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.
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Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
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The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.
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What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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School strikers should be learning, they shouldn't be bunking off and it's very irresponsible for people to encourage children to do so.
