Jemima Khan Quotes
I couldn't define my style; that's impossible. I like comfort and elegance with a bit of glamour thrown in. If I like something, I'll wear it for years.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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I've never played a character that would sing.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.
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Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
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Democratic, Republican members of Congress get along fine. But what you have is this institutional Hatfield and McCoy sentiment coming from our constituents, where the base of both sides doesn't want people to get along. But the majority of Americans, I feel, the majority, they are in the middle. They actually do want both sides to get together.
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Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
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Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.
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I graduate with honors. I balled Nead O'Connor. I did a free style then I got a shoutout from Obama.
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I couldn't define my style; that's impossible. I like comfort and elegance with a bit of glamour thrown in. If I like something, I'll wear it for years.
