Jack Straw Quotes
I have a clear duty of care in respect of both UK citizens and of UK staff in diplomatic posts abroad.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I say whatever I want, I look whatever I want. That doesn't mean I don't question myself and feel insecure.
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I've done some things that have been quite interesting, but as grateful as I am for having been on 'Dynasty,' it was just so cheesy. That's half the reason it was so much fun for people to watch, but it's not so fun to have to say those lines.
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It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.
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The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.
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I have a clear duty of care in respect of both UK citizens and of UK staff in diplomatic posts abroad.
