Clara Jeffery Quotes
We started out covering income inequality in the magazine Mother Jones, but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
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I'm always challenged by someone.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.
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Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.
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I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.
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I learned so much and was so prepared under Karen. And the kids respected the program and what we wanted to accomplish that when I stepped into the head coaching position, the age difference wasn't a problem.
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We started out covering income inequality in the magazine Mother Jones, but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.
