Jo Cox Quotes
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
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It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.
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Early '90s, I was big, big into Sinatra. I was in college. I was fascinated.
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Don't be silly, Dawlish. I'm sure you are an excellent Auror, I seem to remember you achieved 'Outstanding' in all your N.E.W.T.s, but if you attempt to — er — 'bring me in' by force, I will have to hurt you.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E.
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I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.
