Kenneth Clarke Quotes
I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.
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I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.
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I was put in White City children's home when I was 15.
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Every political race I've started, I've entered as an underdog and a long shot. This is certainly no exception. But I happen to be the best person for this job. Democrats need someone who can win. And there are two strategies for winning: You can energize the base, which is the strategy the party has used in the last couple of elections...unfortunately without success.Or you can energize and expand the base and bring the campaign to states where we've not had much success particularly in the heartland.
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Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.
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I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.
