Jackee Harry Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.
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The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I want to win football games.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and says something incredibly supportive. Then he clears his throat nervously and changes the subject.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.
