Jeremy Paxman Quotes
The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.
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I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.
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Being an entrepreneur is tough. Really, really tough.
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I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?
