Frederick William Faber Quotes
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
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I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.
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Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.
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Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.
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When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.
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Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
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I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.
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We threaten to rain fire upon North Korea and Iran, yet we quail before an elderly, impoverished and decrepit Russia. How diminished we are as a civilization.
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In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.
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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
