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“America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.”

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I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

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The fact that I'm a Tory who hasn't worked at a university - at least, not since I taught at Cambridge in 1990 -…

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If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.

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“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.”

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In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair.

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I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

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My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call.…

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Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

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I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]

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America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,…

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I'm gonna bring America together.

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In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did…

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We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that.

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