Andrew Lansley Quotes
Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected the NHS from cuts, put in an extra £12.5bn and left it there. But sooner or later the cracks would have started to show. New treatments would have been held back.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
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For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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No man can be stronger than his destiny.
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A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.
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Women can have a career, but the real career is to be a woman. It's beautiful to be a woman and give birth.
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When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.
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Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected the NHS from cuts, put in an extra £12.5bn and left it there. But sooner or later the cracks would have started to show. New treatments would have been held back.
