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Harold Wilson

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Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
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DEYTH BANGER Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
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MITCH ALBOM Voting on things is democratic, yes - but not on deciding on whether or not people should be equal o...
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republicans are more equal than loyalist...
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ANDREAS LILJA And now I'm thinking we almost have to start a lobbying effort just to be treated on an equal basis.
DAVID HEYMAN In all this time, they should have found everybody they have down there.
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ANTHONY T. HINCKS Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.
CHRISTINA ENGELA We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in openi...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
EDDIE FLOYD I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and lo...
STELLAN SKARSGARD It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN All children should have equal opportunities.
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C. JOYBELL C. Everybody needs to be represented. Everybody should feel welcome, and everybody should have a voice.
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JAMES PETERS Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
and
Just because you don't...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS There will always be someone better looking; better off; smarter; richer; thinner; taller; shorter; ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
EDDIE FLOYD Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
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TOBY KEITH All else being equal, past officeholders ought to have an advantage, but all things are rarely equal...
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GARY F EVANS... What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ...
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LORRIN L. LEE You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
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J. C. WATTS Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Having riches ultimately means having few needs.
J.R. RIM It affects everything and everybody. They should have some kind of rationing.
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APRIL BERTRAM It's not my money. Any chance we have an opportunity to give it back, we should.
RON REAGAN Yes, a black belt should be able to execute precise, effective, beautiful, and technically proficien...
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DANIEL MELGAçO Have confidence, will do.
MUHAMMED HAIDER Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have.
LORRIN L. LEE A man may have no bad habits and have worse
MARK TWAIN Did you know that what you really, really, really want ...you now have?
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KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE Trick to getting something is to pretend you already have it.
ANGEL ORTIZ I don't have a lot of time to speak... but we will speak soon.
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as swag ain't what you worthy have.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
HAROLD WILSON Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
HAROLD WILSON I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep...
HAROLD WILSON The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
HAROLD WILSON The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
HAROLD WILSON This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
HAROLD WILSON One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
HAROLD WILSON A week is a long time in politics.
HAROLD WILSON Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
HAROLD WILSON I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
HAROLD WILSON We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
HAROLD WILSON I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
HAROLD WILSON In politics a week is a very long time.
HAROLD WILSON Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in...
HAROLD WILSON Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
HAROLD WILSON One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
HAROLD WILSON He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress i...
HAROLD WILSON One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
HAROLD WILSON All these financiers, all the little gnomes in Zurich.
HAROLD WILSON I see no need for a Royal Commission [on trade unions] which will take minutes and waste years.
HAROLD WILSON Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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HAROLD WILSON There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much...
HAROLD WILSON Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
HAROLD WILSON Kids have a mindset - and a lot of people have a mindset - that you have to have a starting five, an...
HAROLD WILSON My friend, we don't support savages, we just allow them to come to our meetings,
HAROLD WILSON When they tore that (gas station) down about six years ago, it affected my breathing for weeks.
HAROLD WILSON You don't send a balloon up and then put a pin in it. He's gotten to the age where he should think a...
HAROLD WILSON I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
HAROLD WILSON I thought we got off to a good start. You are always concerned how your team is going to play especi...
HAROLD WILSON He's capable. We'll see a lot of good things from him. He's a good defender. He's a good shooter. He...
HAROLD WILSON He wanted to play hard. He gives it all he's got. That's why I've got to sub him pretty frequently, ...
HAROLD WILSON I'm not really concerned with how many points we gave up. That's fine for us. What we did, we didn't...
HAROLD WILSON We did not bring our A game on offense. I was happy with how we played on defense.
HAROLD WILSON From now the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. It does not ...
HAROLD WILSON I followed the EPA and tried to get them to go over where all the gas was poured from the radiator s...
HAROLD WILSON I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat.
HAROLD WILSON I have not always in my dealings with General de Gaulle found quotations from Trafalgar and Waterloo...
HAROLD WILSON My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the criti...
HAROLD PINTER I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
HAROLD RAMIS The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
HAROLD TAYLOR One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
HAROLD WARNER Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
HAROLD WARNER The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
HAROLD WARNER We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
HAROLD TAYLOR I don't think I have a black-hat image.
HAROLD SIMMONS I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the ima...
HAROLD SIMMONS I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do...
HAROLD SIMMONS Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given q...
HAROLD SIMMONS The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
HAROLD RUSSELL I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.
HAROLD RUSSELL My life is a series of things that just happen.
HAROLD RUSSELL I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widel...
HAROLD ROSS Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
HAROLD ROSS American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, es...
HAROLD ROSENBERG Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
HAROLD ROSENBERG The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a h...
HAROLD ROSENBERG The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of w...
HAROLD ROSENBERG The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself fr...
HAROLD ROSENBERG America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of ...
HAROLD ROSENBERG I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
HAROLD ROBBINS Hemingway was a jerk.
HAROLD ROBBINS My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're...
HAROLD RAMIS I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time beca...
HAROLD RAMIS I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
HAROLD RAMIS The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park...
HAROLD RAMIS I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so ...
HAROLD RAMIS Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that an...
HAROLD RAMIS I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently sug...
HAROLD RAMIS I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human ...
HAROLD RAMIS First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with...
HAROLD RAMIS I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core...
HAROLD RAMIS I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at...
HAROLD RAMIS Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
HAROLD RAMIS I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
HAROLD RAMIS I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'...
HAROLD RAMIS Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You...
HAROLD RAMIS Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're fu...
HAROLD RAMIS The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it ...
HAROLD RAMIS I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
HAROLD RAMIS How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
HAROLD RAMIS We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
HAROLD PRINCE One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
HAROLD PRINCE I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any se...
HAROLD PRINCE I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm d...
HAROLD PRINCE I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in reh...
HAROLD PRINCE I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think ...
HAROLD PRINCE It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that ...
HAROLD PRINCE The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it ou...
HAROLD PRINCE A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
HAROLD PRINCE I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stoppin...
HAROLD PRINCE When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just...
HAROLD PRINCE Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great star...
HAROLD PRINCE I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody wh...
HAROLD PRINCE I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, provi...
HAROLD PRINCE The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad thing...
HAROLD PRINCE I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move th...
HAROLD PRINCE I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
HAROLD PRINCE I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really c...
HAROLD PERRINEAU I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had e...
HAROLD PERRINEAU You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by ...
HAROLD PERRINEAU The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
HAROLD NICOLSON We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
HAROLD NICOLSON I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We ...
HAROLD NICHOLAS If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went th...
HAROLD NICHOLAS In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a stat...
HAROLD MACMILLAN Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
HAROLD MACMILLAN No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
HAROLD MACMILLAN It's no use crying over spilt summits.
HAROLD MACMILLAN (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
HAROLD MACMILLAN When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
HAROLD MACMILLAN There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
HAROLD MACMILLAN To be alive at all involves some risk.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
HAROLD MACMILLAN If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better...
HAROLD MACMILLAN I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
HAROLD MACMILLAN As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound i...
HAROLD MACMILLAN I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I w...
HAROLD LARWOOD In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.
HAROLD LARWOOD Cricket was my reason for living.
HAROLD LARWOOD I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much a...
HAROLD KUSHNER Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which th...
HAROLD HAMM Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. A...
HAROLD HAMM Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and thi...
HAROLD HAMM Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
HAROLD HAMM A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
HAROLD HAMM The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking ...
HAROLD HAMM I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my car...
HAROLD HAMM Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
HAROLD HAMM I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, drivi...
HAROLD HAMM I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
HAROLD HAMM President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.
HAROLD HAMM President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash p...
HAROLD HAMM I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
HAROLD HAMM I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to En...
HAROLD HAMM No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
HAROLD HAMM It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on start...
HAROLD HAMM I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
HAROLD FEINSTEIN I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Par...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; wh...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't ...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where peo...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and ...
HAROLD EVANS Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and...
HAROLD EVANS For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
HAROLD EVANS I think America has a brilliant future.
HAROLD EVANS Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with pa...
HAROLD EVANS The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
HAROLD COFFIN The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
HAROLD COFFIN When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
HAROLD COFFIN Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
HAROLD COFFIN In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything a...
HAROLD COFFIN Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
HAROLD COFFIN Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
HAROLD COFFIN I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
HAROLD BUDD I'm not really a pianist.
HAROLD BUDD I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
HAROLD BUDD Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions t...
HAROLD BUDD I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.
HAROLD BUDD God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined ped...
HAROLD BRODKEY Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think o...
HAROLD BRODKEY I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyon...
HAROLD BRODKEY In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone i...
HAROLD BRODKEY So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russ...
HAROLD BRODKEY I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing...
HAROLD BRODKEY Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
HAROLD BRODKEY It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, th...
HAROLD BRODKEY True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the acc...
HAROLD BRODKEY I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at pe...
HAROLD BRODKEY I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a ...
HAROLD BRODKEY It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and the...
HAROLD BRODKEY Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamilia...
HAROLD BRODKEY Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were le...
HAROLD BRODKEY Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
HAROLD BRODKEY It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St....
HAROLD BRODKEY Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
HAROLD BRODKEY If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretens...
HAROLD BLOOM If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is ...
HAROLD BLOOM Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of...
HAROLD BLOOM All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind...
HAROLD BLOOM No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every c...
HAROLD BLOOM I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, bec...
HAROLD BLOOM I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a...
HAROLD BLOOM Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of...
HAROLD BLOOM I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
HAROLD BLOOM I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
HAROLD BLOOM I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
HAROLD BLOOM What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or ...
HAROLD BLOOM The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been in...
HAROLD BLOOM What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that yo...
HAROLD BLOOM In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
HAROLD BLOOM Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, ev...
HAROLD BLOOM What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems t...
HAROLD BLOOM What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the...
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare is universal.
HAROLD BLOOM We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profound...
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage eve...
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