It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.
タグ: people, character, moment, you

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For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?
タグ: house, people, you, me
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.
タグ: father, school, mother, time
You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.
タグ: know, war, you, politics
Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.
タグ: forgotten, dust, holocaust, wind
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.
タグ: like, more, politics, life
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