Kamla Persad-Bissessar Quotes
Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
Adam Peaty -
In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
Rachel Weisz -
My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
Aaron Ruell -
I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
Garrett Hedlund -
I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
Dan Webster -
We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
Tammy Duckworth
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
Laura Hillenbrand -
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
Daniel Defoe -
When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
J. A. Konrath -
I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
Caitlin Rose -
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
Ilie Nastase
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund Hillary -
I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
Mads Mikkelsen -
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Harper Lee -
I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
Victoria Pendleton -
I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
Garth Brooks -
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde
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I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.
Christopher Guest -
In a zombie apocalypse, I expect insane things to happen.
Chandler Riggs -
If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast?
Walt Disney -
Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar