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It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#being #career #good #good life #good time

We need different perspectives here in Washington - someone who has private-sector experience, somebody who's actually created jobs, manufactures products, understands the incentives and disincentives, the intended and unintended consequences of legislation. ↗

— Ron Johnson

#consequences #created #different #different perspectives #experience

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#same #speak #talking #things #two

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important. ↗

— June Jordan

#exist #important #mercy #most #other

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#always #big #big shot #consequences #i

Our communities face many challenges, from keeping our kids safe in public, to the war on terrorism. But few have such immediate consequences as we face from methamphetamine. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#communities #consequences #face #few #immediate

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#crime #itself #out #proportion #should

Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#around #assigned #bahrain #been #consequences

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. ↗

— Omar Khayyam

#argument #came #did #doctor #door

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. ↗

— Florence King

#about #age #american #american dream #asleep