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Nigel Lawson Inspirational Quotes (49)

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I don't like conflict.
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I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest.
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I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.
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And cooking is about balance and harmony.
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But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.
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Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don't say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But that's why, for example, people don't begrudge Kate Moss how much she earns for a day's work but will fulminate over the take-home pay of some fat, old Water Board exec.
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Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.
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I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can't find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere - cooking is the neatest thing I do.
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Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.
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It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.
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Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.
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(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.
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I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.
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I was frequently embarrassed by the way Margaret conducted herself within the European Community. Her tactics were counter-productive and damaging to the UK's interests. On most issues her approach was foolish. Her style and tone of voice came to irk the others so much that they instinctively sank their differences and joined forces against her.
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On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
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There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.
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Glamour really has to do with good lighting, doesn't it?
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I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.
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Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.
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I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.
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To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
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You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
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Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.
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I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.
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