Jim Ratcliffe Quotes
While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.
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'Kill Bill' is one of my favorite movies of all time.
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Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.
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I do feel a bit dejected about my film career. I am sad that it didn't take off as expected. I didn't get my due as an actor. I have an attractive personality and good looks. But I don't know what went wrong? You need to stop thinking about such things and move on.
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I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.
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While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.
