Martin Jacques Quotes
Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
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I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
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A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
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You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
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The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.
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It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
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There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.
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Logik und Ethik aber sind im Grunde nur eines und das-selbe. - Pflicht gegen sich selbst. Sie feiern ihre Vereinigung im höchsten Werte der Wahrheit...
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No man, I suppose, ever admits to himself candidly that he gets his living in a dishonourable way.
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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
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I still wear minis and cardigans, but I think I'll steer away from shoulder pads.
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A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.
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In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.
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Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal.
