Jo Whiley (Johanne Morton Whiley) Quotes
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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Those who go along get along.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.
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I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
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A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
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'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
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He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
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Directing an austere look at Tubby’s receding back, she spoke in a cold crisp voice which sounded in the drowsy stillness like ice tinkling in a pitcher.
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The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for 'peace through strength' has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.
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I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
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I met my first boyfriend when we were 13, playing 'Dungeons and Dragons' in the basement of my local comics shop. We were from the same small town in Maine but went to different schools.
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Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth. "Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking.
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This isn't just an unhappy planet. Sometimes very good things can happen.
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What is important is that we make sure to work together, that we understand our strength comes from unity and not division.
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Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
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I have only ever wanted to be judged for my work, not my sex.
