Jack Straw Quotes
(Annan) asked that arrangements should be made for a briefing of the security council and that will be taking place later today.
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I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.
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When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Even though I've danced with actors, it wasn't the same with NTR.
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I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.
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Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!
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If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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(Annan) asked that arrangements should be made for a briefing of the security council and that will be taking place later today.
