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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If a doctor said you had stomach cancer, would you consult Rush Limbaugh for a second opinion? Of course, that sounds like nonsense, but many Americans have no qualms about listening to political commentators and untrained activists when it comes to even more complex scientific questions.
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I love feeling strong. You pick up your daughter with ease while everyone else makes a little grunt when they pick up their kids.
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Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
