Jack Straw Quotes
I have a clear duty of care in respect of both UK citizens and of UK staff in diplomatic posts abroad.
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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 have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.
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Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.
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I love running the floor and doing crazy dunks. I think I bring a lot of enthusiasm to the team.
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Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate.
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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.
