Peter Hargreaves Quotes

There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.

Peter Hargreaves

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TaxWayOldTaxesTakeGoing

My country is nothing if not diverse.

Andrew Sean Greer

CountryNothingDiverse

I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.

Steve Antin

LoveSunsetGreatDayNew YorkCity

Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.

Steve Erickson

AmericaMeant To BeWantDisagreeUs

In Washington, if someone disagrees with you, the problem must be your heart - you must be evil.

Steve Southerland

HeartEvilSomeoneProblemYouMust

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Tom Wilkinson

GoodGreatBeingSomethingStraight

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

Mary Antin

FatherFoodCookingLessonReady

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

Miroslav Vitous

AgeTeacherMeKnowThreeViolin

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

Doc Watson

LearningPeopleThinkGuitarPlay

I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.

Doug Liman

ReadingThinkYouHonestTakeKeep

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

Brian Blessed

LifeKindnessHonestyTruthRisks

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

Peter Thiel

SciencePeopleYouTellPokerLike

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Thomas Huxley

TruthCommon SenseLongRunSense

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