Jack Straw Quotes
If and when Turkey does become a member, it will be after years of structural reforms and with a long track record of sustained and stable growth,
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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I have a lot of Republican friends.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Politicians always do a two-step, depending on what their district politics looks like.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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Tell her I am seriously hurt; how seriously I cannot yet say. I am myself, and hope she will come to me soon. I send my love to her.
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Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
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Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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If and when Turkey does become a member, it will be after years of structural reforms and with a long track record of sustained and stable growth,
