John Bercow Quotes

When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

John Bercow

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PoliticsYouConservativeHardRight

No such thing as food that's terrible for you, unless you binge on it.

Melanie Scrofano

FoodYouTerribleThingBinge

My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church.

John Tesh

LifeChurchHouseChoirWonderful

Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.

Amy Bloom

HappinessConfusedInterestingGet

My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.

Tracy Morgan

LifeFatherMeBetterMy LifeRock

We try to separate the world into the stuff we can control and the stuff we can't.

Tom Steyer

ControlWorldTryStuffSeparate

When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely the continuation of the first, 'an armistice of 20 years,' as Marshal Foch had accurately predicted at the Versailles Peace Conference, with some changes of side.

Michael Korda

PeaceWarWorldEldersChangesSide

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

Loretta Lynn

PeopleMeBelieveBornI Believe

When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is.

Jonathan Krisel

YouKnowPilotNeverSeenShow

I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.

April Bloomfield

LoveCookingAnimalEatingPigs

Whether Trump knew it or not, his strong language tapped into evangelical beliefs about the 'last days' and America's role in biblical prophecy.

Anthea Butler

StrongLanguageAmericaDaysRole

I had the little Radio Shack crystal radio, and then my aunt Judy bought me a shortwave radio. It was amazing to me: like on these really clear nights - I lived in Ohio - I could get Texas or Florida. You felt like the world was a smaller place.

Anthony Doerr

AmazingMeWorldTexasYouPlace

Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I'm some kind of 'sissy' or something. That's the language that you hear in locker rooms.

Scott Fujita

LanguageYouGayJust BecauseKind

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