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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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
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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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It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.
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Over the years, it seems 'Firefly' has only gained momentum rather than lost it. I still get letters from people who watched the show - I get more 'Firefly' than 'Mad Men' letters.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.
