Jonathan Raban Quotes

The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?

Jonathan Raban

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 14, 1942

Topics

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One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

Joe Slovo

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I do have the cheesiest of cheesy chat-up lines used on me.

Jesse Metcalfe

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For us, all we care about is maintaining what we do as a band.

Andy Biersack

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I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

John Lurie

PeopleMeAlwaysImageApproach

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

John Major

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My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.

John Hickenlooper

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If you live to be 1000 years old, I hope I live to be 1000 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

Jeff Rich

LiveHopeDayYouNeverOld

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

Michael Jackson

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Me myself, Brian, I'm a Midwesterner at heart, and I have this deep, bone-dry sense of humor, and I've found it worked to combine this Barbie with a dry, sarcastic man.

Trixie Mattel

HeartMyselfHumorManMeDeep

I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion.

Mick Mulvaney

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My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.

Chita Rivera

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People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology.

Chelsea Peretti

TechnologyCulturePeopleSociety

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