Jen Lancaster Quotes
After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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I've spent so much of life thinking of my body as my enemy.
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I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.
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After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.
