Jo Whiley (Johanne Morton Whiley) Quotes
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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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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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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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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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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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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'Foote,' (said lord Sandwich) 'I have often wondered what catastrophe would bring you to your end; but I think, that you must either die of the p-x, or the halter.' 'My lord,' (replied Foote instantaneously) 'that will depend upon one of two contingencies; - whether I embrace your lordship's mistress, or your lordship's principles.'
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He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
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A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
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I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.
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I have only ever wanted to be judged for my work, not my sex.
