#some

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

#clearly #collapsing #conservative #conservative party #different

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#business #deal #defeat #different #different way

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly. ↗

— Edward Albee

#come #correctly #distance #go #his

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. ↗

— Edward Albert

#another #another day #day #days #fear

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences. ↗

— Steve Albini

#experiences #fondly #formative #important #intuitively

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#care #closure #comforting #dealing #find

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#influence #inspiring #life #life story #memoir

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#dealt #i #never #people #really

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?' ↗

— Mitch Albom

#always #characters #column #core #find

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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