Martin Jacques Quotes

Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.

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• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Peace

• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Want

• There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Always
  • Creation
  • Shame

• Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Learning
  • Smart
  • Difference

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Baby
  • Look
  • Chocolate

• The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Darkness
  • Human Heart

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Car
  • Gun

• Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Run

• There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Nothing

• I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Rock
  • Things
  • Songwriter

• The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Start
  • Foundation
  • Fitness

• Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Book
  • Doing
  • Successful

• A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Home
  • View
  • Debt

• While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Texas

• That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • College
  • Advice
  • Dreams

• Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Car

• There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Believe
  • Collaboration
  • Resilience

• The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

  

  Katharine Whitehorn
  • People
  • Money

• The free trade agreement that we will have to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history.

  

  Liam Fox
  • History
  • Free

• Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste

  

  Zentatsu Richard Baker
  • Training

• Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Ideas

• Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.

  

  Martin Jacques
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