Alan Johnson Quotes
We are showing how determined we are to crack down on the distress nuisance calls cause the public.
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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I have a very small public.
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.
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We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.
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England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
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We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.
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I was determined to dance. That's why I lasted so long.
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I am proud of religious Zionism. I am proud of the members of religious Zionism because it is a true ideological public.
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.
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The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.
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For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.
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Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.
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The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.
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We are showing how determined we are to crack down on the distress nuisance calls cause the public.
