Jack Straw Quotes
This spirit of cooperation will, I hope, lead to many more measures that will benefit all in the region.
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When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
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Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more.
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If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, Am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end, it depends on whether we think God can be trusted.
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In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
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My kids don't slow down, but they like to hang just with us, with mum and dad. They play with us and we play, too.
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This spirit of cooperation will, I hope, lead to many more measures that will benefit all in the region.
