Jerome K. Jerome Quotes
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
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The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.
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The Trade Center itself held - and holds - a special place, I think, in the hearts and minds of people in law enforcement - the fact that it did not fall in 1993. Ramzi Yousef's goal was to topple the Twin Towers into each other so that more people died than had died at Hiroshima.
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If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
