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 think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
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Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
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Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
