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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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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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
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We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.
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That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?
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The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.'
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Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.
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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.
