Margaret Thatcher Quotes

In this country over the last five years pay has doubled, whereas output has slightly fallen. That is totally different from the position with many of our competitors. Pay in those countries has gone up hand in hand with productivity. Consequently, they have the jobs and we have a larger proportion of the unemployment.

Margaret Thatcher

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• I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Know
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  • Reaction

• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Behavior

• First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • People
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• If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • People
  • Kind
  • Spirit

• A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Small
  • Friendship
  • Silly

• Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Person
  • Face
  • Greatest

• My eye is ever on those who love me.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Love
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  • Eye

• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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  • Like
  • Religion

• In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Reality
  • Honesty
  • Page

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Change
  • Journalism

• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Giving
  • Always
  • Grateful

• Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Model
  • London
  • Suburbs

• I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Work
  • Love
  • Food

• I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Fake

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.

  

  Harold Pinter
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  • Air

• The Sabbath is not simply a time to rest, to recuperate. We should look at our work from the outside, not just from within.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Time
  • Work
  • Rest

• By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Time

• If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • World
  • Commitment

• I can stay up watching TV so late.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • I Can
  • Watching

• Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Country
  • Fighting
  • Risk

• In this country over the last five years pay has doubled, whereas output has slightly fallen. That is totally different from the position with many of our competitors. Pay in those countries has gone up hand in hand with productivity. Consequently, they have the jobs and we have a larger proportion of the unemployment.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
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