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The Princess Bride
“I love The Princess Bride, which is incredibly funny and still has some of the greatest comic lines in the English language.”
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“I love The Princess Bride, which is incredibly funny and still has some of the greatest comic lines in the English language.”
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“That’s a very good question. I love “Hey Jude.” Still a fan of that.”
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“Once you restrict the ability of people to access land, and so you put all of the costs on the land rather than on the building, you end up massively distorting the amount that people are willing to spend on the architecture and on the quality because, of course, people aren’t doing this for charity.”
02 / evaluation
“He’s been really reticent on building houses, and he talks about rent control, which, as you know, at the moment when you start talking about rent control, nobody wants to rent a house and nobody wants to build a house because it .”
03 / evaluation
“One of the challenges we’ve got in our devolution system in the UK at the moment is you’d have to be nuts, as a devolved representative seeking office, not to promise to pave the steep streets of your community with gold, and then to blame Westminster for not paying for it because you have very little responsibility for raising any of the money that you’re going to spend.”
04 / evaluation
“I think divorcing the splendid from the sordid, if you like, is rather a healthy way of having a government.”
05 / evaluation
“I’ve read a fair amount of Russian history, but I’m afraid I just simply can’t explain it, but it consistently goes wrong.”
06 / evaluation
“I think outsiders miss the fact that there’s a real intimacy to London that you miss if all you’re doing is you’re going on the Tube, or if you’re going on the bus.”
07 / evaluation
“I think that’s one of the reasons why the British political system has endured because it forces you to remember that there’s a long-term interest, not an immediate one, not just a short-term one.”
08 / evaluation
“If there’s a good design, if there’s a good form of architecture that works, that people like, I don’t see what’s wrong with repeating it just because you’ve changed the plumbing or the wiring or behind the facade.”