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I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York. ↗


— James Caan


#believe #certain #certain way #develop #grow

People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands. ↗


— James Caan


#backing #going #hands #i #just

There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard. ↗


— James Caan


#clap #guys #hard #hollywood #just

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter! ↗


— George Washington Cable


#craft #cross #curious #daughter #herself

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise. ↗


— Vince Cable


#assets #banks #breathing #british #business

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire. ↗


— Vince Cable


#active role #also #believe #believer #clearly

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right. ↗


— Vince Cable


#bank #bosses #british #daily #dodge

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views. ↗


— Vince Cable


#because #been #debates #difference #explosive

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ↗


— William Feather


#enjoy #found #happiness #miss #never

Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world. ↗


— Vince Cable


#british #brown #debt #flawed #follow






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