Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.
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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
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We have to look to the well-being of the Lebanese citizens and create prosperity in the country, and you can't create prosperity without stability.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
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I am a Republican because the United States is a republic, and the views we hold represent the foundation our country was built on so many years ago.
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I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
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I hate political correctness.
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I think there are three main values which are fundamental: that Georgia will never be a criminal country, that Georgia will never return to corruption, and that Georgia will be independent.
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There's lots of things I'd die for, Emily; my home, my family, my country. But that's love, not principle.
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Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.
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There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.
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No man should have a political office because he wants a job.
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When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country's economic future lies in the failed policies of the past, the same ones that put banks before people, Wall Street before Main Street, plunging us into recession and devastating the middle class.
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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
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Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
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It's not an understatement to say that I owe everything as an actor to 'Merlin.' It was pretty much my first job, and I didn't know what I was doing for many years on it. It wasn't until the third and fourth series - the fourth series especially - that I really found my feet with the character, and as an actress.
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It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.
