Jack Straw Quotes
I find it extraordinary that without even proper consideration, the French government has decided it will reject these proposals.
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The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.
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It was enough for her that she remembered.
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«We do what we can do means what exactly means, that we do what we can do.»
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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
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I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.
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Christmas is never going to go away, and it's always going to be there. And there's always room for one more Christmas song, I think.
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I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.
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As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
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Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.
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I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.
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Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.
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The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
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It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.
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I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.
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I hate getting a McDonald's. I'm not a McDonald's person: you just feel crap afterwards.
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The East-West Center directly supports the U.S. rebalance to the Asia Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue with countries in the region.
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During one of my annual visits to the great Fred Winter's yard I said to him, 'Good God, Fred, your horses look magnificent. Beautifully fit.' Of course they do, you twit,' he said. 'They don't sit up all night drinking gin and tonic and playing cards.'
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Pursued by our origins…we all are.
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The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.
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The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.
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Most power just looks like an easier-than-average life. It’s so built-in that people mostly don’t realize how powerful they are. Like, the average middle-class person in the US is one of the 3 percent richest people in the world. Thus, they’re probably one of the most powerful people in the world. But, to them, they feel completely average.
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I find it extraordinary that without even proper consideration, the French government has decided it will reject these proposals.
