Jonathan Powell Quotes
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.
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I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.
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There is no point in being a bond vigilante if you cannot influence governments and central banks by selling bonds.
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Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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As a political party, the Libertarians have always been more party than political.
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If there is a political cause, then there has to be a political solution.
