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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Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?
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I don't relate to people that look like me. I find it deeply unsatisfying to play a version of myself. It was something I had to figure out really early on, when I was at RADA, because I was being cast, over and over again, as the young, virginal thing. When I left RADA, I was on an absolute mission to never wear make-up.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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When I go home, I still have to clean my room; I still have to do the dishes. We have somebody come every now and then to do that stuff, but my mom still makes me clean before she comes.
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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,
