Carwyn Jones (Carwyn Howell Jones) Quotes
We in Wales see ourselves as a nation. We're not English. We're far from it. Yeah, we're part of the U.K. We've benefited from being members of the U.K.

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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.
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I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.
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You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.
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Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
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Brian and I will vote for some kind of smoking ordinance while Jack is against it.
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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
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Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.
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The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.
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As a costume designer, it's important to give each person his or her own personalized look.
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The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.
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I have a very positive and optimistic view about what we can do together. That's why the slogan of my campaign is 'Stronger Together.' Because I think if we work together, if we overcome the divisiveness that sometimes sets Americans against one another, and instead we make some big goals - and I've set forth some big goals: Getting the economy to work for everyone, not just those at the top, making sure that we have the best education system from preschool through college, making it affordable, and so much else.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge.
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We in Wales see ourselves as a nation. We're not English. We're far from it. Yeah, we're part of the U.K. We've benefited from being members of the U.K.