Margaret Thatcher Quotes
I am a great admirer of Professor Hayek. Some of his books are absolutely supreme-'The Constitution of Liberty' and the three volumes on 'Law, Legislation and Liberty'-and would be well read by almost every hon. Member.
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Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.
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My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.
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My wife is great. She always goes to the bank to see if the check has cleared.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
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I am a great admirer of Professor Hayek. Some of his books are absolutely supreme-'The Constitution of Liberty' and the three volumes on 'Law, Legislation and Liberty'-and would be well read by almost every hon. Member.
