Jo Cox Quotes
Every decade or so, the world is tested by a crisis so grave that it breaks the mould: one so horrific and inhumane that the response of politicians to it becomes emblematic of their generation -their moral leadership or cowardice, their resolution or incompetence. It is how history judges us.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I like being unconventional.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.
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Every decade or so, the world is tested by a crisis so grave that it breaks the mould: one so horrific and inhumane that the response of politicians to it becomes emblematic of their generation -their moral leadership or cowardice, their resolution or incompetence. It is how history judges us.
