Darcey Bussell Quotes
Over the years, I've had two ankle operations, torn my hamstring, had my hip resurfaced, and snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in my knee.

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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.
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I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.
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I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.
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I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.
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Social computing is doing what agile methodology is doing to our process - it's breaking down our visibility.
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Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
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Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you.
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How can we still speak of the salvation and reformation of Europe, when we have to ask Europe's destroyer for help?
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As a general rule-never substitute the symbol for the thing signified, unless it is impossible to show the thing itself; for the child's attention is so taken up with the symbol that he will forget what it signifies.
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Like coming for a living.
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No disrespect to Sweden: I didn't think of them as the comedy universe.
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Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.
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Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don't in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves who live inside your refrigerator but come out only when the light is off.
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Success is goals, everything else is commentary.
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I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.
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Over the years, I've had two ankle operations, torn my hamstring, had my hip resurfaced, and snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in my knee.