Jack Straw Quotes
We have just made history, ... an EU based on values, not just history. Turkey has always been a European country.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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We care about margins.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.
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I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me.
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The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.
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Thailand was built on compassion.
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I just keep happy and help the team when I get an opportunity.
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I'm not a bro.
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We have just made history, ... an EU based on values, not just history. Turkey has always been a European country.
