Jo Cox Quotes
I've lived and worked in Brussels and New York at the U.N. and worked all over the world. I would jump on a plane and be in Kabul one week and then Dafur the next.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.
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I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.
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I'm from New Orleans, and I know that people do like to sit and talk and drink and, you know, have conversation; you have dialogue.
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The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world.
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I've lived and worked in Brussels and New York at the U.N. and worked all over the world. I would jump on a plane and be in Kabul one week and then Dafur the next.
