J. J. Hardy Quotes
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
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When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
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In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.
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Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
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Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.
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I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
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And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.
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It's great that Time is moving in the direction of validating those who, by choice or circumstance, will never be parents. But the point is not simply that society should stop judging those of us who don't have children. It's that society actually needs us. Children need us.
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The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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We couldn't place their accents but we thought the smaller one might be Australian since he seemed so at home down under.
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A lot of things are going right. More is going right than wrong, for sure.
