Johann Lamont Quotes
The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
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Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
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I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.
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Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.
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At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.
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The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.
