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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Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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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.
