Kristian Nairn Quotes
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.
Gail Devers -
My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.
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Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.
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Our history is not our destiny.
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I'm pretty casual. I love Free People and small vintage boutiques.
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Through the learning experiences, I've been trying to eliminate mistakes. I don't want the same mistake to happen twice.
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If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait.
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When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
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If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.
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Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
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There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination.
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God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.
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I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.
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As I tried to emphasize in the commentary, hindsight plus the logical fallacy can be a dangerous combination. But can you look at the list of the 10 juxtapositions, especially the two that pertain to around the time of the Democratic Convention last year? And obviously, there are lists that are longer that have been compiled elsewhere that are based on different criteria and are of different merit. But can you look at that list of 10 juxtapositions and say that, in your heart, you're comfortable that not once were political considerations a factor in any of the counterterrorism statements or actions of the government?
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst of architects from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.
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I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.
