Jane Jacobs Quotes
Privately run jails are a mark of American 'reinvented government' that has been picked up by neoconservatives in Canada.
Jane Jacobs
Quotes to Explore
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
Sam Worthington
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
Naftali Bennett
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
Ian Mckellen
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
Imran Khan
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
Dale Murphy
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
Francesca Annis
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
Olivia Williams
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
Wade Boggs
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
Kate Winslet
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
Walter Lippmann
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
Harriet Tubman
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Carl von Clausewitz
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
Nassau William Senior
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I can't even imagine life without music!
Manika
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When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.
Jack Gantos
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Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.
M. L. Stedman
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The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing.
Kenneth Cranham
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You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!
Jim DeMint
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Adventure-travel is any activity used as a conduit to observe, share, enjoy, suffer, encounter, or experience that which is outside the boundaries of one's own day-to-day life. You don't have to go to Thailand or Central America to be an adventurer-traveler, but you can. And it's probably better not to have a specific goal, but there are no requirements about that, either. 'Boundaries' is the operative word here; real, implied, or imagined, if your body or mind crosses a boundary, you are doing it.
Randy Wayne White
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Privately run jails are a mark of American 'reinvented government' that has been picked up by neoconservatives in Canada.
Jane Jacobs
