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I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being sur

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I dont make enough money. – Andrew Motion

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In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry
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Andrew Motion
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Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking – its just that Im one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry
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Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear. – Andrew Motion

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Fear
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Other Quotes from
finance
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I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration – but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. – Evo Morales

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finance

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. – Henry Ford

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finance

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building. – Sherrod Brown

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finance

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war – diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power – and we are developing new tools as we go along. – Richard Armitage

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finance

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Ive never looked forward to a birthday like Im looking forward to my new daughters birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement. – Pete Rose

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I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity. – Michelle Obama

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. – Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein), Diary in Exile, 1935

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If you cry Forward you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Dont you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions? – Anton Chekhov

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communication