Andrew Lansley Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
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My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
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It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.
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Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.
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I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.
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I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.
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You don't come into government thinking it is going to be easy.
