Nellie Melba Quotes
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
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When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
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I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.
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Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas and their place in the society that produced it.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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Often in companies, you'll see tensions between sales and marketing. Sales people will want to give discounts to clients because they often get paid a commission based on how much they sell. So they're always pushing to give discounts because that will increase sales. Marketing, however, is judged by overall profitability.
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One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
