Alison Jackson Quotes
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I think all politicians lie.
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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
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Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth.
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'A dog,' said Mr. Baldock, in his lecture-room style, which was capable of rousing almost anybody to violent irritation, 'has an extraordinary power of bolstering up the human ego.'
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I grew up in Alsace - in Strasbourg, by the canal; the family business was coal handling. It was still in the days when three generations would live under the same roof. There were 15 people for lunch, 20 for dinner.
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We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.
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I've never really been a television watcher, so I never watch comedies.
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I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like 'Secrets' and 'Rockin',' almost like Toni Braxton. On 'Secrets,' I'm a different person.
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I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, but I won't front like I'm super knowledgeable. I just never got around to it.
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But one thing that's constant is we've always appreciated fans. They put us on the map and they keep us on the map. I always put myself in their position. If I loved someone and had their posters all over my wall and met them and they were rude it would be very hurtful.
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My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.
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I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control.
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Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.
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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
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I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.
