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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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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One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.
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I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
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We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.
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I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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The Jain religion in India teaches that because all life is essentially interrelated and interconnected, all living beings should be considered sacred and be respected. This belief forms the basis of the doctrine of ahimsa, which has been translated into English variously as "reverence for life," "nonviolence," and "dynamic compassion."
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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.
