"I suppose I've always carried what is regarded……" — Chris Patten
"I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics."
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Chris Patten
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22 Quotes by Chris Patten
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But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is,…
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So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of…
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Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
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Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.
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I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity…
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We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government…
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It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.
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Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to…
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There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.
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I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the…
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I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.
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I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.
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Though my father was a sirdar, he always carried loads. It is hard for someone who is walking unburdened to…
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Television always carried me: be it at my beginnings in small series and telefilms, or through my success in Kasamh…
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Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people…
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At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black…
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In 'Delhi Belly,' I was bald; in other movies I always carried a different look.
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He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried…
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Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always…
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But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried…
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There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the…
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They had picked up Julie's scent hit wolfsbane lost her and found her trail again at the crumbling Highway 23…
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When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
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She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.
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