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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

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• Learn from your dreams what you lack.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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• 'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  

  Laura Marling
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• The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.

  

  Earl Weaver
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• I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

  

  Yolanda Adams
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• I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.

  

  Ian Beattie
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• My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

  

  Vince Carter
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• Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.

  

  Ted Olson
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• I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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• If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
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• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

  

  Jack Welch
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• Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
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• There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency - that sort of thing.

  

  Ted Olson
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• I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
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• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

  Edie Falco
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• We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

  

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