Kenneth Clarke Quotes
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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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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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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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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It's not necessarily what a family is typically supposed to look like. But it is what it is. It's about a connection and bond that everyone can identify with.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
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When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
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Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
