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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Cubans have no bar to being legalized once they are in America. All other Hispanics - with the exception of Puerto Ricans - have to go through a broken, dysfunctional process. One group is American from day one. And all the rest are trying to be.
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You cannot force a country to do something that is against its own interests or against the democratic process.
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When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a skilled intelligence professional, everything looks like a vital source for collection.
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I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.
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I have been trying to perform well and give my best, but unless I have a good story line in my hand or a supportive team, I am nothing.
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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.
