Jo Cox Quotes

I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!

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• Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Music
  • Me
  • Just

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• Women drive box office.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Office
  • Box

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Fight

• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Think
  • Appreciation
  • Him

• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Morning

• 'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Grow
  • Finding
  • Exploring

• Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Expectations
  • Meet

• I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Politics

• I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Body
  • Fat
  • Goat

• I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • School
  • You
  • Popular

• I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Women
  • Family
  • Kids

• From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • House
  • Fantasy
  • Realism

• Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • May
  • High
  • Honor

• Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

  

  Plato
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Health

• Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Christmas
  • Pajamas
  • Elves

• It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The music was always huge there.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Work
  • Music
  • Chicago

• I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Music
  • Country
  • Style

• I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Long
  • Mother

• I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!

  

  Jo Cox
  • Dad