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Chris Patten Quotes

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: May 12, 1944

Topics

Leadership Think Political Doing You

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Suffering Own Only Glorious Thing

Television is taking over the Internet.

Internet Television Over Taking

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

Worth Wrong More Question Right Far

George Bush and I share a love of steel brush cutters. It turns out we use the same professional brush cutter. He asked me what I did. I said I cut brush. He says, 'Oh, what do you use?' I said steel. He goes, 'Oh, me too.'

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Love Me You Professional Said Steel

I worked for a lot of directors.

Lot Directors Worked

Let's face it: most jerks trying to affect an ascot look like Thurston Howell III.

Face Trying Look Affect Like Jerks

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

Roberto Burle Marx

Gardening Color Plant Aesthetic

Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father.

Father Dreams Soul People Career

I want to prove that actors are good, not just at working in front of the camera.

Good Camera Want Prove Working Just

I drove the Ford Ranger until probably five years after college, till about 2001, when I was almost 30.

College Years Five Almost Until

Most Muslim charities are run by good people.

William Shawcross

Good People Good People Run Muslim

Writing is this odd act, right? To sit and type, or write by hand, or whatever people do. And it requires a real discipline because it is really a sheer act of will that you're creating something, and you're doing it by yourself.

Discipline Yourself People Writing

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