Margaret Beckett Quotes
My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
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There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
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I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
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During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.
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More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.
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Men and women will never understand each other; my advice is to just stop trying. Just forget it. I know I will never understand women. I will never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root...and still be afraid of a spider.
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It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.
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My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.
