Jack Straw Quotes
The demands they have made could not be met without great damage to jobs and industry, to essential services ... to pensioners and children.
Quotes to Explore
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Everybody grows but me.
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The 'victim to victory' theory is that, if you listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are... about victim to victory, like, 'I'm having a terrible time.' And then the pre-chorus is, 'I don't know what's gonna happen next.' And the chorus is, 'Now I'm brilliant, and everything is great, because something happened to make it great.'
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I have great respect for Dick Cheney. I don't agree with a lot of things he said in this campaign. He was a very distinguished Secretary of Defense, and I don't have anything negative to say about him.
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All acting is nudity. It's all vulnerable - and a little bit scary.
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My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.'
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The demands they have made could not be met without great damage to jobs and industry, to essential services ... to pensioners and children.
