Jay Weatherill Quotes
A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
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The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
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Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.
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My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
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People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.
