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All Quotes Collection
"We will say to people that if you can work, and if you want to work, we will do everything we can to help you. We will give you the training, we will give you the support, we will give you the advice to get you going and get you back at work."
39
"We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work."
34
"But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now."
43
"We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right."
34
"On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have."
43
"It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy."
35
"If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough."
44
"At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud."
41
"I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security."
49
"I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue."
28
"I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers."
41
"Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets BP rather than other companies? I don't think that - would be right."
38
"We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world."
39
"I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living."
47
"I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots."
44
"I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean."
46
"You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything."
50
"There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest."
55
"I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all."
57
"I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on."
Work,
47
"I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things."
51
"I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself."
94
"I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth."
47
"Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee."
88
"Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down."
35
"Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself."
38
"I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow."
52
"Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything."
42
"Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise."
58
"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control."
78
"Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness."
45
"From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour."
63
"When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued."
47
"When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer."
48
"The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."
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