Kenneth Clarke Quotes
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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I specifically had my son wear a Browns jersey on the streets of Pittsburgh while we were there.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
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I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
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I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.
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I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.
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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.
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Yeah, I definitely want to find that right person and fall in love and have kids someday.
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
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For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.
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You know, every movie you make can't be great, no matter who you are.
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One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
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Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
