Jack Straw Quotes

The proposals from the presidency are not acceptable to us.

Jack Straw

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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• The way to resumption is to resume.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase

• 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.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Game

• Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Music
  • Want
  • Free

• 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.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Hate
  • Know

• No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Respect

• 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.' .

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • House

• Expectation is in itself a very pretty sort of reality.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Pretty
  • Reality
  • Expectation

• The Modernist’s command was Pound’s 'Make it New.' The postmodern imperative is 'Get it Used.' The more used the better.

  

  Andrei Codrescu

• 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.

  

  John Adams
  • Men
  • May
  • House

• Technology has come a long way since PayPal.

  

  Max Levchin
  • Long
  • Technology

• I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

  

  Christopher Atkins
  • Movie
  • Vampire

• NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe.

  

  Kathleen Rubins

• 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.

  

  Kelly Asbury

• There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • Life

• It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.

  

  Kathleen Kennedy

• In anger-management training, they teach you never to hit a person - hit an object. That's what they teach you.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Training
  • Management

• All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.

  

  David Shields
  • Up
  • Good
  • Wind

• 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.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • People
  • Country
  • Food

• I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Different
  • New York
  • Felt

• I think the global markets will probably be selling off with a [Donald] Trump presidency because he has promised to re-do trade deals.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Trump
  • Deals
  • Donald Trump

• Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind. But actually it's ... about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going.

  

  Andy Puddicombe
  • Mind
  • Meditation
  • Controlling

• The proposals from the presidency are not acceptable to us.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Presidency
  • Proposals