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 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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That well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all.
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The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.
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I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.
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I don't shop. I haven't shopped in about four years.
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I think jazz guitar isn't very ladylike in general. Not that it shouldn't be.
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I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.
