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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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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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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I'm a political conservative.
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All great achievements require time.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my parents were like, 'Wow! You have a really great voice!'
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I wouldn't say Hollywood is anti-Republican, I certainly haven't experienced that.
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When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career.
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The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
