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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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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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 remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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What I'm not about is exploiting women.
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I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
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We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.
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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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I never even think about the physicality of roles, until honestly I get the gig and I think, 'OK, now what do I have to do in this one?' Like, I approach it thinking more about the character - do I respond to it? Is it something I think I can play? Does it seem like it'll be fun?
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I feel like everything comes into your life for a reason.
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I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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I love my country so much.
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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.
