Nigel Lawson Quotes

A flat-rate poll tax would be politically unsustainable; even with a rebate scheme, the package would have an unacceptable impact on certain types of household.

Nigel Lawson

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My favourite thing about being in nature is that I feel so small and kind of insignificant.

Sigrid

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My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

Robert Cormier

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There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

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You get a compound fracture in Colorado where I live, and you can probably be in a hospital within a matter of hours, certainly within a day.

Jon Krakauer

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I have always been around sports my whole life.

Devon Cajuste

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Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.

Douglas Coupland

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Brand names aren't important to me at all.

Wiz Khalifa

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You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

Mstislav Rostropovich

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I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me.

Kim Weston

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Jazz is more raw than punk in a lot of ways. It's so expressive. A lot of people say to me, especially older people, 'It took me ages to get into jazz.'

King Krule

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They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.'

Howard K. Smith

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You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.

Gillian Jacobs

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