Jen Lancaster Quotes
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
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I keep everything that's private private.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.
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Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.
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I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.
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Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College.
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I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.
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My memory is not as good as... Chief Justice Roberts.
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But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.
