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.
Orhan Pamuk -
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.
Nassau William Senior -
'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.
Rachel Joyce -
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.
Najib Mikati -
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Dan Rather
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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.
Maidie Norman -
I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
Fefe Dobson -
I hate political correctness.
Dan Jenkins -
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.
Vano Merabishvili -
There's lots of things I'd die for, Emily; my home, my family, my country. But that's love, not principle.
Paddy Chayefsky -
Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.
Edmund Burke
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
Lionel Trilling -
The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.
Augusto Pinochet -
There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.
Elaine Welteroth -
No man should have a political office because he wants a job.
Franklin Knight Lane -
I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.
Liza Donnelly -
Ronald Reagan came in - he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again.
Jim Webb
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
Caprice Bourret -
I started going to castings a few years ago when people didn't know who I was. People forget about [that time] because they've seen my career - the path that it's had in the last couple years.
Gigi Hadid -
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
Pat Conroy -
Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.
Martin Garrix Area21 -
It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.
Rickie Lee Jones