Vince Cable Quotes
So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I have a great office.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.
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People will reach out because they know I'm trying to put my best forward when it comes to subject matter and creation of song.
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I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.
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So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
