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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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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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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They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people and limited government under our Constitution. Those are the principles I've always stood for. I know they're right, and that's what I'm going to stand for.
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I was in front of the goal so much at Stanford. I still amassed a lot of goals, but there were so many opportunities that I wasn't scoring.
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I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.
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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.
