Jen Lancaster Quotes
I didn't want to turn into Martha Stewart. I wanted to turn into a more organized, more gracious me. And that truly has happened.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.
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So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
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You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
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I was watching 'Deal or No Deal' on YouTube recently, and I bawled when the contestant won £250,000. I think I just like watching people achieve their dreams.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs.
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It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!
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Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
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I'm a communicator.
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Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
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I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.
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Here is tragedy-and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.
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If I'm going to eat fast food, I'm going to McDonald's. I don't need to pretend.
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The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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I cannot bear to live where there is so much injustice and I cannot do something about it. What kind of a torturous life is that?
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It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
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I have been trained to throw many, many pitches.
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I didn't want to turn into Martha Stewart. I wanted to turn into a more organized, more gracious me. And that truly has happened.
