Iain Duncan Smith Quotes

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

Iain Duncan Smith

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Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one.

John Dingell

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I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive, bloodsucking package.

Melissa de la Cruz

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In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

Meg Rosoff

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I was a convert to Catholicism, and converts are much more devout.

Robert Stigwood

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Is there a way that we would actually recognize the game of football with fewer tackles and fewer collisions? I'm not sure. But I think that's the direction we're going to have to go. Bigger fields? Fewer players on the field? I think we are ultimately going to have to change some of the major rules of the game.

Ann McKee

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Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.

Trevor Nunn

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One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

Tom Stoppard

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Goodrich is a perfect addition to our Hamilton Sundstrand business. And with a strong portfolio of complementary products, Goodrich also brought great leadership balance, great opportunities to provide more integrated systems.

Louis R. Chenevert

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I'm realistic. I'm not becoming Farrah Fawcett here. If you stay beyond your welcome, it's for ego or money or because you can't exist without the limelight. I'm fine without it.

Judy Sheindlin

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I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.

Lisa Marie Presley

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I've always been hard on myself, so I expect so much out of myself that that pressure can be inspiring at time.

Christian Pulisic

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I don't understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don't get it.

Bonnie Hunt

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