Alison Jackson Quotes
You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
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I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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Say yes to everything.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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We anticipate countries increasing their spending on infrastructure like railways, airports, power plants and ports. Our heavy forging plant has the capacity to cater to each of these segments.
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I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.
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I could spend several hours on YouTube every night. It's all there. I just don't have enough time.
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I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.
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Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.
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I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.
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You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.
