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Vince Cable Quotes

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

Vince Cable

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: May 9, 1943

Topics

Money Team Bad London Office Audit

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Joe E. Lewis

Friend Me You Need Show Pest

When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.

Jill Sobule

People Song Think Doing You Artist

I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.

Michael Ian Black

Age Depression Childhood Think Awake

A long, negative review I wrote of Rushdie's novel 'Fury' earned me a rebuke from the writer: He told an administrator at the college where I teach, and who had invited Rushdie to come speak, that he wouldn't share the stage with me.

Amitava Kumar

College Me Negative Speak Long

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

Simon Van Booy

Parenting Yourself Not Knowing Single

Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography is, perhaps ironically, a challenge to curators, practitioners, and critics.

Trevor Paglen

Challenge Photography Seeing Become

Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.

Chris Sacca

Simplicity Easy Build Hard Charge

We stopped cleaning our houses with lemon water and vinegar like our mothers did, and we clean with chemicals. We're breathing chemicals, and then everyone wonders why cancer is the biggest killer.

Suzanne Somers

Water Cleaning Why Clean Breathing

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.

Sylvia Day

Soul Enough You Find Write Audience

A couple of people I knew went to university apart from me, but all the way through I was the smartest kid in the school. That's luck, but I was proud of it. And I was also proud of doing well without trying. As you get older, and it took me a long time to realise it, that's a disgusting attitude, revolting.

Ricky Gervais

Attitude Time School People Me Luck

My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.

Nikki Sixx

Me Camera Photography Sometimes Wet

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

Richard Gere

Me Impact Had Buddhism Tibetan