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I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.
VINCE CABLE

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.
VINCE CABLE

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frank...
VINCE CABLE

We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become prote...
VINCE CABLE

In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies ...
VINCE CABLE

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done...
VINCE CABLE

Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks ...
VINCE CABLE

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, b...
VINCE CABLE

On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British econom...
VINCE CABLE

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling poin...
VINCE CABLE

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the tr...
VINCE CABLE

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-...
VINCE CABLE

My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets t...
VINCE CABLE

The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high qu...
VINCE CABLE

Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
VINCE CABLE

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognisin...
VINCE CABLE

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to d...
VINCE CABLE

I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I...
VINCE CABLE

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that'...
VINCE CABLE

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptiona...
VINCE CABLE

We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second...
VINCE CABLE

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by over...
VINCE CABLE

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, ...
VINCE CABLE

We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to...
VINCE CABLE

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was ...
VINCE CABLE

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losse...
VINCE CABLE

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation,...
VINCE CABLE

Many voters still...associate us with high taxes and big spending.
VINCE CABLE

It's a tax-cutting measure and we should have made that clearer.
VINCE CABLE

He has been a very good leader, but we have had a slow hemorrhaging of support and confidence. A lot...
VINCE CABLE

It is embarrassing, the things he's said and the things he's subsequently done, and it illustrates t...
VINCE CABLE

No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I'...
VINCE CABLE

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and u...
VINCE CABLE

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been ...
VINCE CABLE

When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship c...
VINCE CABLE

The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life a...
MARY CABLE

Last time I visited the graveyard, some of us had trouble walking the quarter mile from the boat lan...
CLAY CABLE

There will also be free kettle corn.
BOB CABLE

We are gaining interest on top of interest on top of interest. We're going to have a good parade and...
BOB CABLE

He is making the nasty seem nice.
VINCENT CABLE

We've had good economic stability in the UK and steady growth, and much of this is down to that deci...
VINCENT CABLE

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, th...
VINCENT CABLE

It's not anything we're looking forward to, that's for sure.
CLAY CABLE

There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on;...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gig...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE

Something happens at 80 when you lose just a little bit of energy.
DANA CABLE SR

It's still too much fun to work.
DANA CABLE SR

I know what I want - and it's not going to Florida to retire.
DANA CABLE SR

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I loo...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of u...
VINCE LOMBARDI

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regard...
VINCE LOMBARDI

Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
VINCE VAUGHN

My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough...
VINCE VAUGHN

I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd ...
VINCE VAUGHN

I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I...
VINCE VAUGHN

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can ...
VINCE VAUGHN

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performi...
VINCE VAUGHN

If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by p...
VINCE VAUGHN

I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afrai...
VINCE VAUGHN

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same...
VINCE VAUGHN

When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As yo...
VINCE VAUGHN

I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come...
VINCE VAUGHN

I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I dro...
VINCE VAUGHN

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-de...
VINCE VAUGHN

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
VINCE VAUGHN

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
VINCE VAUGHN

I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I...
VINCE VAUGHN

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the oppor...
VINCE VAUGHN

If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, '...
VINCE VAUGHN

The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the l...
VINCE VAUGHN

I love Snoop. I worked with him on 'Old School,' and he's very accessible. He's very...
VINCE VAUGHN

My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria...
VINCE VAUGHN

I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from ...
VINCE VAUGHN

Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's ...
VINCE VAUGHN

I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for ...
VINCE VAUGHN

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.
VINCE VAUGHN

The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million pe...
VINCE STAPLES

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, t...
VINCE STAPLES

Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do...
VINCE STAPLES

Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
VINCE STAPLES

I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people becau...
VINCE STAPLES

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel...
VINCE STAPLES

Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
VINCE STAPLES

Care and pity are two different things.
VINCE STAPLES

I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.
VINCE STAPLES

At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in the...
VINCE STAPLES

What's important to me is people just being people.
VINCE STAPLES

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
VINCE STAPLES

Some people make their best music when life is horrible.
VINCE STAPLES

The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wr...
VINCE STAPLES

My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had t...
VINCE STAPLES

You're either ghetto or you're not.
VINCE STAPLES

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
VINCE STAPLES

Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
VINCE STAPLES

I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
VINCE NEIL

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire aft...
VINCE NEIL

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
VINCE NEIL

I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with t...
VINCE NEIL

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own i...
VINCE NEIL

Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just...
VINCE NEIL

Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a ...
VINCE NEIL

So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
VINCE MCMAHON

One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.
VINCE MCMAHON

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated...
VINCE MCMAHON

I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
VINCE MCMAHON

We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these...
VINCE MCMAHON

It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.
VINCE MCMAHON

I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.
VINCE MCMAHON

I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever ...
VINCE MCMAHON

We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
VINCE MCMAHON

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.
VINCE MCMAHON

As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON

The Rock will always come back to us.
VINCE MCMAHON

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunat...
VINCE MCMAHON

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television ...
VINCE MCMAHON

I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
VINCE MCMAHON

We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get...
VINCE MCMAHON

I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
VINCE MCMAHON

Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
VINCE MCMAHON

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
VINCE MCMAHON

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
VINCE MCMAHON

I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild ...
VINCE MCMAHON

But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process...
VINCE MCMAHON

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
VINCE MCMAHON

I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of i...
VINCE MCMAHON

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just ...
VINCE GILLIGAN

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.
VINCE GILLIGAN

If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you wi...
VINCE GILLIGAN

People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works...
VINCE GILLIGAN

There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
VINCE GILLIGAN

You don't make a movie by yourself; you certainly don't make a TV show by yourself. You inve...
VINCE GILLIGAN

The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a chara...
VINCE GILLIGAN

'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously ...
VINCE GILLIGAN

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and...
VINCE GILL

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I ...
VINCE GILL

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of ...
VINCE GILL

My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best st...
VINCE GILL

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
VINCE GILL

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded ...
VINCE GILL

It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write bec...
VINCE GILL

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made,...
VINCE GILL

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the re...
VINCE GILL

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you ...
VINCE GILL

But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 year...
VINCE GILL

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
VINCE GILL

The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician ...
VINCE GILL

It is easy to react if everything is going great.
VINCE GILL

I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
VINCE GILL

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
VINCE GILL

I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.
VINCE GILL

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away ...
VINCE GILL

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in plac...
VINCE GILL

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
VINCE GILL

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is gr...
VINCE GILL

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
VINCE GILL

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may b...
VINCE GILL

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to d...
VINCE GILL

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your c...
VINCE GILL

When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
VINCE GILL

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to s...
VINCE FLYNN

Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.
VINCE FLYNN

One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.
VINCE FLYNN

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.
VINCE FLYNN

I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.
VINCE FLYNN

It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
VINCE FLYNN

I just look at what's going on in the world.
VINCE FLYNN

I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
VINCE FLYNN

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should ...
VINCE FLYNN

No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, ...
VINCE FLYNN

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
VINCE FLYNN

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most in...
VINCE FLYNN

I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is goi...
VINCE FLYNN

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
VINCE FLYNN

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept...
VINCE FLYNN

I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!
VINCE CLARKE

I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the key...
VINCE CLARKE

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't com...
VINCE CLARKE

I'm a lover of songs.
VINCE CLARKE

I started writing songs at age 15.
VINCE CLARKE

When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyo...
VINCE CLARKE

I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything,...
VINCE CLARKE

Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.
VINCE CLARKE

With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can im...
VINCE CLARKE

I just think people should be able to express themselves.
VINCE CARTER

I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
VINCE CARTER

I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last...
VINCE CARTER

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
VINCE CARTER

I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's...
VINCE CARTER

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do ...
VINCE CARTER

There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I&#...
VINCE CARTER

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
VINCE CARTER

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while.....
VINCE LOMBARDI

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
VINCE LOMBARDI

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
VINCE LOMBARDI

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
VINCE LOMBARDI

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
VINCE LOMBARDI

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. An...
VINCE LOMBARDI

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what h...
VINCE LOMBARDI

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their...
VINCE LOMBARDI

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow t...
VINCE POSCENTE

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

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Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

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