Margaret Thatcher Quotes
I have made it quite clear – and so did Mr Prior when he was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – that a unified Ireland was one solution. That is out. A second solution was confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out. That is a derogation from sovereignty.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.
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When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
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For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.
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If I'm going to work, I put black jeans on, a T-shirt, a shirt, and a jacket.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.
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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.
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I suppose - in the last resort - you trust life - or you don't. Well - I don't. There's something malicious . . . corrupt . . . cruel . . . at the heart of it. We don't belong. We're a mistake.
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Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.
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Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.
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[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.
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I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
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I have made it quite clear – and so did Mr Prior when he was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – that a unified Ireland was one solution. That is out. A second solution was confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out. That is a derogation from sovereignty.
