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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My cousin used to make fun of me for liking stuff like C+C Music Factory. I didn't have any tapes; I just liked their song on the radio. We liked that because that was what we had access to.
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Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.
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I learned from my dad that when you walk in front of an audience, they are the kings and queens, and you're but the jester.
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We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.
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I'm definitely a narcissist, and TV is fabulous for narcissists.
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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.
