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 I was first starting out was also when I first started really paying attention to the Oscars and stuff like that. And I remember thinking, 'Wow, everything is great for women in Hollywood, because Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jessica Lange, Sally Field - they're all doing incredible work.'
Geena Davis
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This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.
Eli Wallach
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I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
John Ashcroft
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The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.
John Gunther
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Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.
Jacques Maritain
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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
