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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
Walter Bagehot

Time, Money, Mind

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.
Dick Wolf

Work, Working, Community

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Norman Mailer

Good, Evil, Group

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Igor Stravinsky

Family, Die, Idiot

I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.
Chris Hemsworth

Good, Yourself, Hard

I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
Iain Duncan Smith

Whatever, Involved, Figure

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?
Patti LuPone

School, Laugh, Thought

What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things.
Evan Davis

Job, Used, Hold

My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.
Chloe Sevigny

Money, Job, House

I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
Albert Brooks

Knows, Politician, Iowa

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
Jeffrey Kluger

Family, Opinion, Once

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
Naguib Mahfouz

Politics, Political, Party

It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
Barney Frank

Thought, After, Until

I think 'Tattoo''s a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.
Jordin Sparks

Life, Family, Someone

If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.
Ron Wyden

Rules, Price, Helping

We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe's direction. That's also my logic when I tell voters that electing me president will not only shape France's future, but also initiate change across all of Europe.
Francois Hollande

Change, Future, Help

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.
Graham Norton

Public, Shallow, Sounds

The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.
Freeman Dyson

Science, Together, Both

I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.
Bjorn Lomborg

Friends, Old, Coming

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
Art Buchwald

Long, Hard, Enough

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
Umberto Eco

Community, Resentment, Writers

Well, you know, first of all, let me just say that I am a proud member of the NRA and have been, and I'm a lifetime member and will always be.
Joe Manchin

Proud, Lifetime, Nra

I am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be.
Amy Lee

Become, Band, Mine

For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
Julian Fellowes

Welcome, Directors, Taliban

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
Manuel Puig

Political, While, Writer

I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.
Amber Heard

Someone, Proud, Idea

I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
Nathan Fillion

Love, Society, Down

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.
Charles Rangel

Science, Political, Duck

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
Jack Adams

Test, Passed, Staff

When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.
Elizabeth Hurley

Movies, Older, Started

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