Jack Straw Quotes

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• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Live
  • Greatest

• I got lost but look what I found.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Lost
  • Look
  • Found

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Up
  • Family
  • Myself

• One of the good things about losing your feet is I can wear all the pointy shoes I want, and it doesn't hurt anymore. I can wear shoes just for fashion now.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Hurt

• And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Long
  • Heart

• I have resolved, if our interview is conducted in the usual manner, and it pleases God to give me the opportunity, to reserve and throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Thoughts

• It's scary to me to watch the world around us get less and less physical while in the imaginary world of pop culture, aggressive impulses and fear reactions are floridly, furiously stoked and indulged.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • World
  • Culture
  • Fear

• I like everything from hard-style techno to rock n' roll.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • Style
  • Rock

• It is absolutely key that funding is used to support the best scientists with the best ideas.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Support

• 'Instagram' reached 13 million users in just 13 months.

  

  Kevin Systrom

• Taking a vote or poll is a great simple way to take a decision, but it doesn't help a group find consensus. It actually polarizes people and highlights the differences between them. People end up getting entrenched in their views.

  

  Louis B. Rosenberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I still believe that we can offer you a much deeper, more engaging, more compelling play experience on a PC than we can on a mobile device, but one can enhance the other, and one can expand the other. I don't think they necessarily will compete with each other, just like how we find a place for movies in our lives, and TV and radio.

  

  Mark Pincus
  • Believe
  • Experience

• Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

  

  Dirk Benedict
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Today

• It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.

  

  John Singleton
  • People
  • Work
  • Energy

• Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

  

  John Foster Dulles

• I think you have a lot of examples on TV of what not to do, you don't have a lot of examples of what to do.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Thinking
  • Example

• The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome.

  

  Dean Radin
  • Act
  • Outcome
  • Probabalistically

• Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Information
  • Assessment
  • Pandemic

• In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Past
  • Modern
  • Terrible

• We're going to listen carefully ... and make an assessment from there.

  

  Jack Straw
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