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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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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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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Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
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I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.
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I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other 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.
