Ray Davies Quotes
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
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I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.
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My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.
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If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.
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We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.
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I put out a call on Twitter and Facebook and email for women to tell me their stories about their abortions. And many women said, 'I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and that was the last I ever heard of them.'
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I drive a 1965 Shelby Cobra. I love classic muscle cars.
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.
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'I want to say it again, and again, and again: Islam is not a religion, it's a political system meant on - bent on world domination, not a religion. It masquerades as a religion, but the religion covers a worldwide attempt to exercise power and to subjugate the world into their way of thinking.' 10
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Our Yes towards life from the very beginning carries within it the Divine No which breaks forth from the antithesis and points away from what now was the thesis to the original and final synthesis. The No is not the last and highest truth, but the call from home which comes in answer to our asking for God in the world.
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We only have problems we really want to have.
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The lower lip definitely states that all actors are cattle-including the authorǃ
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This next piece is called 'Sonnet 155', or 'If Shakespeare Had Written a Porn', and it goes like this:
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Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.
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Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.
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Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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As mechanistic biologists, we are hoping that by understanding how the virus works at the molecular level, we will be able to predict with more accuracy how it will evolve.
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Everything I do in investment is just very different.
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I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.
