Clement Attlee Quotes
We never took a vote in the Cabinet that I can remember and the most important of all the Prime Minister's functions is to give a firm lead in Cabinet so that decisions can be taken quickly. The Prime Minister musn't always listen to those who talk most.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
Federica Montseny
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
Laura Benanti
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
Fat Joe
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I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.
Abby Wambach
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
Ed Koch
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
Harmony Korine
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
Madeleine Albright
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
Carly Schroeder
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
Jaclyn Smith
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
Lajos Kossuth
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
Felicity Kendal
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
Tanith Lee
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
Manny Farber
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Yes, you could call me a tree hugger, an environmentalist, an eco-warrior even - except I don't spend my life in a kaftan, smoking joss sticks and walking a skinny dog on a piece of string.
Jasper Carrott
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.
Orlando Bloom
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I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.
Meg Wheatley
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I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.
Randy Pausch
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We never took a vote in the Cabinet that I can remember and the most important of all the Prime Minister's functions is to give a firm lead in Cabinet so that decisions can be taken quickly. The Prime Minister musn't always listen to those who talk most.
Clement Attlee