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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

The bicycle kick is not easy to do.

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Today what is more important for me is performance. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have done it all - 61 movies over 12 years. But now I am looking for quality. It's easy to be a star. Now I want to be an actress.

It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.

Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

Not every Christian finds it easy to believe.

Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

When you like what you like, it makes it easy for your husband to shop for you!

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.

Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

When you're young, it's so easy to get bull-dozed.

Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well without ever giving a thought to the sulfur cycle or wetland functions. Only when the benefits nature provides are disrupted do we take notice.

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

When I have a difficult decision to make, I imagine myself as a 90-year-old guy looking back on his life. I imagine what I'll think about myself at that point in time, and it always makes it really easy to go for it. You're only going to regret that you wimped out.

I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

I don't know why this is, maybe because I am 33 or what, but I didn't think it would be that easy for me to get pregnant. But it was.

I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Living in London has become incredible. I suppose it's easy to love where you live if you love what you're doing. But this is not just a visit: it's my home.

It wasn't easy in the 1970s when I initially started on my mission - to take yoga to the world. Nobody knew what it was in Japan. When I met Bill Clinton for the first time, he asked me if it was a form of yogurt that you eat! But I kept my faith and never gave up on my quest.

With Twitter, it's as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It's definitely a gift and for which I'm thankful.

I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.

There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.

My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been lots of battling and lots of love and it's never an easy road for us. But in the deepest recesses, I do have my mother's values.

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy.

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.

I'm an easy target because of my political opinions.

I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.

It's very easy for me to keep a low profile because the focus I feel is always on the music. Success and fame are two different things. And so I feel the success is always towards the music, which means that I can have a very normal and private lifestyle.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me feel amorous.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all's going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything's falling apart?

It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid.

We are to learn our duty from the Lord, and then we are to act in all diligence, never being lazy or slothful. The pattern is simple but not easy to follow. We are so easily distracted.

There is a history of gay people pretending to be straight. I want to balance the sides. I'm a straight person pretending to be gay. I've had a lot of people to imitate. It's easy when you're British; we're camp by nature, anyway.

It's very easy to say no to leaving the house.

If you fail to pay your minimums for any debt on time, your credit score will take a major hit and you run the risk of seeing the interest rate on all of your cards go up. An easy way to remind yourself to pay, is to sign up to receive your statements via e-mail.

My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn.

It's not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It's not easy if those people aren't as perfectionistic as I am.

It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I'd put on 50 pounds.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.

I love Kate Moss. I've worked with her a couple of times, and she is a great girl, really funny and easy to work with.

I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.

I am generally a very happy and easygoing person.

The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.

I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it.

When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world.

That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business.

I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

I love animals and they're very easy to look after when they're dead.

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

My father, who was a hair colourist, died when I was young, so my mother had to work very hard. But at the same time, I do believe that if you have everything, it is easy to make a dinner. When you only have flour and water and olives and potatoes, you have to be much more creative, and that's what my mother is all about.