Howard Jacobson Quotes

I find Australia compelling and vexatious at the best of times; I've never been able to get it out of my system since going there as a young lecturer, and yet however much I love revisiting it, I always feel I have to leave again.

Howard Jacobson

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Pilates is amazing. It makes you conscious of how you have been doing something incorrectly for so long, even something as simple as just standing there.

Jim James

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I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody.

Joe Jamail

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Well, I haven't signed anything giving people the right to do anything they want with my image, you know what I mean. I have the ultimate say.

Joaquin Phoenix

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If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there. And, know that you aren't the only immigrant or the last to come to this country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible.

Jenni Rivera

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The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

Steve Jobs

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If you look back to 2008, people didn't have smartphones. Now everyone essentially has a smartphone.

Steve Mollenkopf

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One of the things that was missing from the 2014 election was a Contract With America type of platform.

Ron DeSantis

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I don't understand why gay people are so anxious to get married.

Miriam Margolyes

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If Trump was really looking for Mexicans to pay for the wall, he should put in a call to Sinaloa. They'd probably build it for him.

Don Winslow

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When taking a photo, I tend to look for one of the following: depth, symmetry, color or contrast. All of those things catch my eye to the point where I stop dead in my tracks to capture whatever it is that I've seen.

Connor Franta

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Someone like Cristiano Ronaldo focuses on scoring to progress, so perhaps I need to think more about scoring.

Anthony Martial

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I've taken all the mirrors out of my house because when I'm playing onstage, I feel like I'm still in high school. I feel like that kid that wanted to play in his first band, and then I look in a mirror, and it's like, 'Uh-oh!' It ain't pretty.

Rick Nielsen

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