Alistair Darling Quotes
Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
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Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed.
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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
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Groupon, as you probably are by now aware, is exactly what it sounds like: a daily-deal site offering group discounts. Maybe you've seen that done before, but certainly not like Groupon, which has executed with an energetic sales force and engaging copywriters, many culled from the Chicago comedy scene.
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If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.
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Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.
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Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
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We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
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Without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information, and concede that your opponent might be making a fair point, and that science and reason matter - then we're going to keep talking past each other, and we'll make common ground and compromise impossible.
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The First Envoy to a world always comes alone. One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.
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Exile desire For what is not. This is the barrenness Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.
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The war is language,language abusedfor Advertisement,language usedlike magic for power on the planet.
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But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
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We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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There's nothing to be scared of. We're playing basketball. The only thing that could happen is you failing. But as long as you're going hard, there's nothing to be scared of for me. I don't know what there is to be scared of.
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I like to fish when it's not too hot.
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If you were Dracula I’d be letting you take that bite, hot and hazardous, like playing with dynamite.
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Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.
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What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.
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Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
