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Nigel Lawson Inspirational Quotes (48)

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People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.
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I'm not much of a drinker. I'm an eater more than a drinker. So I feel that I don't have to wait to get a hangover in order to eat these.
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I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.
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It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.
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In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.
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In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.
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I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
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I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
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I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.
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You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
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There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.
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At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
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Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with a wild cherry sauce and then had to lie down and cry for a while.
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I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.
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Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
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There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.
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Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.
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I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.
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Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.
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I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.
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But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.
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Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.
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You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.
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During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial countries in the world. During the 1980s, our annual rate of growth of output per head in manufacturing has been the highest of all the seven major industrial countries.
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