Jo Cox Quotes

In Afghanistan, I was talking to Afghan elders who were world-weary of a lack of sustained attention from their own government and from the international community to stop problems early.

Jo Cox

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 22, 1974 - June 16, 2016

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My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Jennifer Weiner

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I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

John Milius

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When a customer is really not happy, it's a very unpleasant experience.

John L. Flannery

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I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.

Spike Jonze

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The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

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What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

Boy George

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Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

Bryan Singer

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I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

Peter Singer

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Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they're going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.

Sebastian Stan

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When you have been persistent for as long as I have been, you have to exercise a certain amount of caution, but I want to do everything.

Nushrat Bharucha

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I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

Lynn Abbey

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