Carwyn Jones (Carwyn Howell Jones) Quotes
There's not really the appetite in Wales at the moment to become an independent country. Scotland is in a different place.

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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
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If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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It's awesome to have friends among the country music community that you know are looking out for you and that you are excited to get to see on the road.
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It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider all the books I have loved and depended upon and profited from, how can I pick just one?
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When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.
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A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want to look at life like that. It's bad enough that I have to think it. What works for me is writing against that view. There is God, there is love, there is greatness, there is a plan, and there is beauty.
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I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
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I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.
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In the scale of American blunders - from the Dred Scott decision to the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s to the tragedy of Vietnam - is the Trump presidency really unique?
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.
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I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
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I push reforms. I tell the truth to people, even when it's tough for the country.
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There's not really the appetite in Wales at the moment to become an independent country. Scotland is in a different place.