Jack Straw Quotes
Every country is under an imperative to deal with terrorism, including terrorism masquerading as freedom fighting,
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.
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In marriage, it's always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer.
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If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
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Every country is under an imperative to deal with terrorism, including terrorism masquerading as freedom fighting,
