Daniel Hannan The ‘EU in a Nutshell’ is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It’s a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page. – Daniel Hannan Anecdotes Quotes Book Quotes Crack Quotes Delve Quotes Entertainment Quotes Eu Quotes Miscellany Quotes Nutshell Quotes Pursuit Quotes Rules Quotes Virtually Quotes The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables. Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers – our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation – Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence.
Joan Laporta These kinds of people, like Pep Guardiola and Johan Cruyff, they know very well football. They don’t need the extended period maybe that other coaches need to be a great coach. – Joan Laporta
Satoru Iwata If we don’t take an approach that looks holistically at the form a video-game platform should take in the future, then we’re not able to sustain Nintendo 10 years down the road. – Satoru Iwata
Joao Cancelo It’s an enormous pleasure for me and all footballers to play with a great champion like Cristiano Ronaldo. – Joao Cancelo
James Laughlin We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good. – James Laughlin
Carrie Brownstein I’ve never understood people who play up the artifice of music. – Carrie Brownstein
Paul Di Filippo The lives of most authors – even, or perhaps especially, the great ones – are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule. – Paul Di Filippo
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