Jack Straw Quotes
There was no consensus for that proposal, ... It frankly would make negotiations impossible and render your negotiators powerless.

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There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.
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In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
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Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.1.
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'Why is everyone here so happy except me?' 'Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere,' said the Master. 'Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?' 'Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.'
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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(The Community Charge is) the flagship of the Thatcher fleet.
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When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!
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The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.
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I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research often - if I need names, details, facts that enhance the project.
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What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!
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The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.
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The independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked to the total liberation of Africa.
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It was in the nature of truly effective good-luck pieces that human beings never really owned them.
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In actuality, Muppets was a word we just coined. It was merely to be the name of our act. ... I used to say to people that it was a combination of 'marionettes' and 'puppets.' ... But then I stopped telling this lie, and I'm back to the truth: It just came out of midair.
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We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.
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The fact that Iran asked for these discussions this morning - they are not negotiations - illustrated the fact that Iran is concerned about its international position.
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Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.
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He was a nice guy, middle-aged, a little tired, like most doctors usually seemed to be, but he just nodded and said, "Let me take a look at him. Shane?" "I'm not dropping my pants," Shane said. "I just thought I'd say that up front.
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How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?
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There was no consensus for that proposal, ... It frankly would make negotiations impossible and render your negotiators powerless.