Kenneth Clarke Quotes
The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
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A lot of my characters are people who are, in essence, lying to themselves. They present one thing, when in reality they're another thing. Maybe they're not as tough or as cool as they want to be.
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All literature is political.
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And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government or federalism has no business in this kind of business.
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To attempt to commit the Church to social and political programs may be a short cut . . to escape from the more difficult and costly responsibility of submitting ourselves to those deeper changes of disposition and outlook which are in the end a much more powerful revolutionary force.
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The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.
