Iain Duncan Smith Quotes
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?
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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
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The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.
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I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.
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I have to be grateful to our society here in China, grateful to the economic reforms for letting me get rich, and grateful for the efforts of my staff. If there had been no reforms, I would have been a farmer.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'