Roy Jenkins Quotes

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

Roy Jenkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 11, 1920 - January 5, 2003

Topics

GreatTogetherPoliticsPresentWill

I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.

Jessica Seinfeld

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I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

Robert Lopez

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If you had to point to anything, it's when you've had as much success as we've had and are so close to winning a Super Bowl, at some stage you have an opportunity to think the next move, even if it's not consistent with all your previous moves, will be the one that gives you the chance to win the Lombardi Trophy.

Jeffrey Lurie

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My sketchbook became everything to me.

Steve Carr

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I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.

Stephen Colbert

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I usually go to the swimming pool if I want to swim.

Song Hye-kyo

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The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.

Tom Wolfe

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I love comedy, but I did always consider myself a dramatic comedian.

Molly Shannon

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I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.

Jojo Moyes

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I love Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, but if I'm not in the right frame of mind to watch their work, I feel upset after watching it.

Brett Gelman

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Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

Brett Ratner

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I do sometimes cook myself, and I do enjoy it, though it does depend what's in the fridge, and filming can mean I don't have much time.

Art Malik

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