George Osborne Quotes

The Internet has made us richer, freer, connected and informed in ways its founders could not have dreamt of. It has also become a vector of attack, espionage, crime and harm.

George Osborne

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When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

Jhumpa Lahiri

WritingStoryThinkEnoughDownTry

I feel very grateful that I have never had to be or ever chosen to be or accidentally found myself to be in the space of the other woman.

Jennifer Nettles

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'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.

Matthew Barney

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To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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I don't see myself in an ivory tower.

Jeff Buckley

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I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

Sidney Poitier

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There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision.

Rupert Friend

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We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.

Jay Inslee

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I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

Jay Parini

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I think there's a difference between somebody who grows up in Paris or London and goes to Los Angeles. But if you grow up in the green fields, and you rarely go into the city, you're so overprotected that when you do go to L.A., it's almost a bigger slap in the head.

Dolores O'Riordan

CityGreenThinkGrowYouParis

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.

Douglass North

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We've got to protect the nursery schools. I'm chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I'd be worried about the socialising skills of children.

Colin Salmon

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