Janet Street-Porter Quotes
The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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..to capture the magic of the ambiance. - in the fresco which Goya made c. 1798 of Saint Anthony of Padua
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Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
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The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
