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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Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.
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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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I loved the first Christmas I had in England.
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Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicine, and yet on all these doctors' shows you hardly see any Chinese-American faces.
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There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.
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I just watch movies I like over and over. It seems to be a lot of sci-fi stuff. My favorites are probably - besides the first two 'Alien' films, I watch '2001', I watch 'Star Wars', the first ones, because those actually had a huge effect on me as well, 'Empire Strikes Back' especially.
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The standard of the world, and the standard of the Lord Jesus, are indeed widely different. They are more than different. They are flatly contradictory one to the other.
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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.
