Mark Walport Quotes
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
Karen Abbott -
You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
Malcolm McDowell -
We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
Ted Cruz -
When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
Zac Brown Band -
We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
Rachel Shelley
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
Jacob Batalon -
I love anything to do with history.
Waris Ahluwalia -
If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
Abraham Cahan -
The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
Eric Lynn Wright -
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
Calvin Peete
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I had an amazing childhood.
Abbie Cornish -
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
Candice Swanepoel -
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
N. T. Wright -
I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
B. B. King -
What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
Fareed Zakaria -
I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
Zubin Mehta
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
Nancy Astor -
At the time of my second marriage, my husband was in his early 50s, I was in my mid-40s, and we each had two kids. We maintained our individual accounts and opened one for the house. We each kick the same percentage of our incomes into the house account and have a joint credit card. But we pay for our children separately.
Jean Chatzky -
I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.
Jill Sobule -
A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.
Elizabeth Hurley -
I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.
Stuart Woods -
In medicine, there is always a balance between risk and benefit.
Mark Walport