Martin Jacques Quotes

The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied.

Martin Jacques

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When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.

Andrea Bocelli

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Male? Female? It's not always relevant to some people. They are who they are - they might not fit into a specific box.

Maxine Peake

PeopleSome PeopleAlwaysBoxWho

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

John Mayer

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Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.

John Piper

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Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

Tony Abbott

PeopleBoatAustraliaWayComing

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

Tony Blair

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Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.

Robert Creeley

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The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words.

Tom Chatfield

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The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

Roisin Murphy

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There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

Rush Limbaugh

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I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.

Mary Gaitskill

ThinkYouWriteOutFictionGoing

The question of trademark is pretty unsettled in the open source world. The trademark is important in a consumer product, but there are a few groups who feel it's a restriction they can't live with.

Mitchell Baker

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