Jack Straw Quotes
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.
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No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.
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What, in substance, both the Esquimaux wizards and the Louisiana swamp-priests had chanted to their kindred idols was something very like this: the word-divisions being guessed at from traditional breaks in the phrase as chanted aloud: 'Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.' … 'In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.' .
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Expectation is in itself a very pretty sort of reality.
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The Modernist’s command was Pound’s 'Make it New.' The postmodern imperative is 'Get it Used.' The more used the better.
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I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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Technology has come a long way since PayPal.
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I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.
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NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe.
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The Smurfs - and they're this way in Peyo's comics as well - do have a rubbery indestructibility about them. They can get bruised & battered. But they then just sort of bounce back very quickly, like those classic cartoon characters Wiley Coyote and Tom & Jerry.
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There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.
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It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.
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In anger-management training, they teach you never to hit a person - hit an object. That's what they teach you.
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All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.
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The pet food recall, which was after all just about pets, and treated as if it were an inconsequential matter, was an absolute forerunner of what's going on in China, where 50,000 infants have been sickened because of a contaminated infant formula. So these things are all closely related. You cannot separate the food supply for pets, farm animals, and people, and you cannot separate problems in one area of a country from problems in another area.
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I like woman who doesn't necessarily care if other people like her. She is she who she is and figures people can take it or leave it. What I do like is a woman who has the guts to tell exactly as she feels. It's not appealing when a woman dresses to please a man. It's way more attractive if she has her own distinct style and wears what she feels best in.
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The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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The proposals from the presidency are not acceptable to us.
