Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, 'We have played with 10 today,' but that's it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
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To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.
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Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
