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“Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.”
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“We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.”
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“I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.”
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“I'm a gay man who came from the last years of illegality. That focused my whole character. I think it focused everyone's character in a way. You saw yourself as outside of the main structure.”
Source : "Rupert Everett: 'If I'd been straight? I'd be doing what Hugh Grant and Colin Firth do, I suppose" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2009. 
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“Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.”
Source : Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.216, RosettaBooks
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“I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.”
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“Beneath every history, another history.”
Source : Hilary Mantel (2013). “Hilary Mantel Collection: Six of Her Best Novels”, p.78, HarperCollins UK
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“I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.”
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“If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did.”
