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Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bloggers #briefings #correspondents #day #days

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. ↗

— John Hannah

#actions #along #baggage #business #carry

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#british #british people #buy #day #eu

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aides #anticipated #chambers #circumstances #day

When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#giving #i #like #line #others

Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#carolina #creating #giving #jobs #line

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#fun #i #much #play #recording

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#god #learn #may #men #mind

I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#fall #get #great #guitar #guitar players

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect. ↗

— Gregory Harrison

#allowed #aspect #compromised #feel #fingerprints