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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• Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

  

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• I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I'm from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.

  

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• Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

  

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• As girls grow up and download what it means to be a culturally acceptable 'good girl,' they learn to please others at the expense of themselves. They worry about protecting relationships - and what people think of them - at all costs.

  

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• I'm wondering if the crew [from'The Hateful Eight'] had some sort of nickname for me. I am blanking at anything truly funny, so I'll just say, 'No Phone Quentin'.

  

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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.

  

  Jim Ratcliffe
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