"Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing to provide good value for money."

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Source : "MPs look lazy with short parliamentary hours, says Margaret Hodge" by Rajeev Syal, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2013.

Margaret Hodge

#Thinking Quotes #Mps Quotes #Lazy Quotes

“When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.”
“If your wife briefly corrects someone with "Actually, I'm bisexual" during conversation, it hardly sounds like attempting to remain an object of desire to me. If she went around saying, "Actually, I'm still very interested in men, particularly you, you massive dose of sexual charisma," you might have a case.”
“I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.”
“While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat.”
“The fall from your dream into reality is especially hard when you've seen that you can fly.”

Source : Stephen Tobolowsky (2012). “The Dangerous Animals Club”, p.223, Simon and Schuster
“Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.”
“The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.”
“For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.”

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