"So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations."

-- Chris Patten

#People Quotes #Principles Quotes #Accommodations Quotes

“Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.”
“I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.”
“I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.”
“The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.”
“All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me - probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.”
“Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.”
“The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.”
“College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.”

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