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John Major Quotes

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: March 29, 1943

Topics

People Believe Someone Quiet Right

For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal.

Anatoly Rybakov

Book You Professional Say Will Way

Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Man Effort Minds Property Us Chain

There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

Understanding Argument Need Two Does

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

You Lying Actor Watch Actress Stuff

Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write. I come up with it and put things in different piles.

Writing Write Solo Up Things Stuff

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

Roy Lichtenstein

People Think You Know Kind Most

In my case, there's no revolving door... I won't be going back to government.

Government Door Back Going Revolving

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

Mother Girl Doing Young Hollywood

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

Mirror Look Kid Pretend Used Elvis

The 20th century was all about hierarchies: if you want to create something, if you want to start a country, create a product, whatever it is. Your goal is to create a highly efficient hierarchical model, scale it, because that's what the competition's doing.

Competition Start Doing You Goal

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

Medical Caring Said Line Informed

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

Think Hard Read Fact I Think Lot

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