Notices tagged with q, page 4
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"The best thing to have is a vocation — to like doing something rather than having something. Because then the wanting more is just about wanting to be able to do it better, and that actually pays off." #q Richard Hell http://ur1.ca/oh0fx
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"Politicians love interviewing their consciences; they reliably receive a supportive response. Tony Blair and his conscience got on famously: one of the longest-running romances of modern times." #q Matthew Parris http://ur1.ca/ogd5w
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"I have loved and been loved […] Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure." #q Oliver Sacks http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/gratitude_20151204
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"If we actually wanted to bomb the oilfields that fund ISIL, we would be bombing Saudi Arabia." #q Craig Murray https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/12/war-porn/
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#q Steven Moffatt "I’m quite relaxed about getting up on stage and talking to a crowd for ten minutes […] This is, my son tells me, typical of introverts. But stick me in a room with a bunch of people I don’t know…" Yup. Know the feeling. http://ur1.ca/ofovl #DrWho
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"If I could [vote in the leadership election] I’d vote for Jeremy #Corbyn if only out of hope, the hope that the better part of salvation lies not in electoral calculation but in people’s aspirations." #q Alan Bennett http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n01/alan-bennett/what-i-did-in-2015
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"Denying government benefits to rich people just makes it that much harder for less than rich people to qualify. […] There's a simple way to means test everything: increase taxes on rich people." #q #Atrios http://www.eschatonblog.com/2015/11/soak-rich.html
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"I was a very good soldier, yes." "What makes a good soldier?" "Ah… fear." #q #Milligan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1iVdLSoIRY
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"Don’t kill baby Hitler — we need him to justify [fiscal] stimulus!" #q #Krugman http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/terrorists-and-aliens/
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"Economic insecurity has been baked into employment." #q Robert Reich http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/11/us-uk-politics-economics
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"It was nice to do something that I felt was more reflective of what's going on in the world and also, I think, to try and help children understand more about what's going on in the world." #q #Capaldi http://ur1.ca/obppc #DrWho
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"I carry a doner card. I want to help someone to a kebab after my death." #q Sandi Toksvig
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"If GCHQ are supposed to be so computer-savvy, why can't they just access their own porn without having to go trawling through other people's?" #q Jeremy Hardy http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p037bs73.mp3
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"It has not been easy for me. I started off in Brooklyn. My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars…" #q Donald #Trump http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/video_stephen_colbert_dares_donald_trump_do_something_remarkable_20151029
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#q Barry Humphries, on entertaining tough crowds: "You have to be better than alcohol." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/come-to-the-cabaret/6548860
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"The knowledge provider [has just] worked things out in specific areas and have a duty to pass that knowledge on. […] A duty is a duty and an academic life is a calling based on that duty." #q Bill Mitchell http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=32169
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"I had someone knock on the door the other day. Two very nice, well-dressed elderly people, and they said 'Have you heard the good news about Jesus?' And I said 'No, what is it?' They said 'He can now supply your gas and electricity!'" #q Jeremy Hardy
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"I believe you should always consider yourself a foreigner in your own country because that’s the only way you can pass critical judgment on it. So open the bloody borders to those in need and stop bickering about who’s going to do less." #q #Varoufakis http://ur1.ca/nx16b
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"Saying that 'I don't care about the right to privacy because I've got nothing to hide' is no different than saying 'I don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say'." #q #Snowden http://www.startalkradio.net/show/a-conversation-with-edward-snowden-part-1/
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"It is not enough to be for working people—we have to be _of_ working people as well." #q #Jeremy http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/08/24/far-extreme-corbyns-anti-austerity-stance-mainstream-economics
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I pretend to like #Krugman for the quality of his thinking, but really it's the cultural references: "I have never, to my knowledge, declared that someone’s mother was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberries." http://ur1.ca/nn65c #q #Python
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"I'm an insomniac, mainly. When I'm not an insomniac I sleep." #q Ringo Starr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQaqcLPAI_s #Beatles
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@tregeagle "My garden, you can stroll round it in ten minutes, if you're power walking. If you saunter, it could take half an hour. If you swagger, maybe forty-five minutes." #q George Harrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQaqcLPAI_s #Beatles
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"My political thinking […] was shaped by a principled, intellectual opposition to TINA – to the neoliberal logic that There Is No Alternative. […] I believe not in TINA but in TATIANA: That Astonishingly There Is AN Alternative!" #q Yanis Varoufakis http://ur1.ca/nbzkf
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“Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.” #q Voltaire http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/the-austerity-kitchen/it-ought-to-be-called-vice-cream/
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In news-lag world, I just heard about Varoufakis' resignation. "And I shall wear the creditors’ loathing with pride." #q #Greece http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/07/06/minister-no-more/
