Vince Cable Quotes
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way too competitive. We were seven or eight years old, and I had a very stern conversation with my relay team-mates about how crucial it was for us to win.
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I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.
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Christmas movies, it's a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don't want to stand out; you want to blend in.
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Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
