Jo Cox Quotes
While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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I directed a half hour comedy pilot, 'Upgrade,' and had one of the best times ever! I had such a great time directing; I would love to get to direct another project.
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Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.
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O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)
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ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.
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We have travelled so far in our technical advancements that we are no longer located in our own countries.
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While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.
