Jim Ratcliffe Quotes
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.
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Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
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When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.
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One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.
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I'm an essayist. And this is a genre that has existed for a few thousand years. Ever heard of Cicero? So these rules that I'm working under are not mine but rather were established by writers who recognized the difference between the hard research of journalism and the kind of inquiry of mind that characterizes the essay.
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I love her but I wouldn't marry her if she [Kate Moss] was the last woman on earth.
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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
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I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.
