Jack Straw Quotes
We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
Frances Burney
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
Larry Kramer
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
Nancy Reagan
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
Gavin Bryars
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I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
Daisaku Ikeda
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I want to go down in history.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.
Kate Williams
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
Nancy Pelosi
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My inspiration is love and history.
Waris Ahluwalia
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle
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If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
Hans Jonas
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
Gavin Newsom
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I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
Caleb Carr
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History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
Yitzhak Navon
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And we call upon others to join us on the right side of history - for while small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.
Barack Obama
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In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Elie Wiesel
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Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.
Azzedine Alaia
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When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.
Young Thug
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A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
Jimmy Wales
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We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.
Jack Straw