Allan Frewin Jones Quotes
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.
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No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.
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Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.
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Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.
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I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.
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Some people dote on contemplating disasters.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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I'm not easy to live with. My wife is a saint.
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You are quite the beauty. If no one has ever told you that before, know that right now. You are quite the beauty.
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This is my risk to take.Not yours. I can live with getting myself killed. Technically, you can't live if you get yourself killed.
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I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.
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When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win.
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But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
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I wore your promise on my finger for one year I'll wear your name on my heart til I die Because you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.
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Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
