Martin Jacques Quotes
The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.
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I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.
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I'm very klutzy. I've fallen off horses, I've tripped with my high-heeled boots over a stunt guy.
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If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half?
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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It's very hard to be cut off in Glasgow because it's such a small city. You know, we have the highest rate of per-capita imprisonment, certainly in Britain, maybe in Europe. We have a very high murder rate here. So most people will know someone who's been to prison.
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The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.
