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I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#child #happened #helped #i #i believe

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting. ↗

— Robert Frost

#disagreeing #thinking #voting

People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish. ↗

— Emma Watson

#bit #even #feel #framework #having

You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#broke #committee #company #ended #fate

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it? ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#actually #against #ago #become #did

The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#because #black #black community #community #deeper

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#lose #prepare #speech #thought #would

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it. ↗

— George Savile

#been #business #celebrated #despised #most

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it? ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. ↗

— Robert Frost

#people #rest #some #them #willing