Lucy Powell Quotes
At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.Lucy Powell
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
Dana Rohrabacher -
I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
Dan Brown -
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman -
A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
Jack Nicklaus -
I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
Ian Mcewan -
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
Karl Liebknecht
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
Oliver Reed -
I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
Ziyi Zhang -
I wish I sang better.
Warren Zevon -
I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
Washed Out -
My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
Immanuel Velikovsky -
One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?
Eddie Trunk
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
Vance Joy -
I enjoy seeing new places.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
Paige Craig -
Winning excuses everything.
Cam Newton -
I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
Laura Carmichael -
Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
Patricia Schroeder
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
I think the global community always has a ... has a responsibility to any humanitarian crisis. And I think it's in our best interest to address a humanitarian crisis on this scale because displacement can can lead to a lot of instability and aggression.
Angelina Jolie -
The time for Mugabe to grandstand ... as the grandmaster of anti-imperialism in Africa is now past. The game is up.
Arthur Mutambara -
I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
Ann Patchett -
Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to create a park, will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.
John Muir -
At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.
Lucy Powell