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!
Quotes to Explore
-
Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
-
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
-
Women drive box office.
-
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.
-
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.
-
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
-
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
-
'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.
-
Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
-
I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
-
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!'
-
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.
-
From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
-
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.
-
Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
-
It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.
-
They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
-
I missed the Wilco phenom while busy obsessing over rock en Espanol. So imagine my surprise when I found myself at O'Hare getting on a plane with my Chi-town homeboy, Jeff Tweedy. I loved the guy right away and loved his family. How odd to know somebody before you listen to them. I don't know if that's bad or good.
-
I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
-
I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life.
-
I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!
