Billie Piper Quotes
I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
Kate Dickie
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
Pamela Nicholson
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
Manolo Blahnik
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
Nancy Gibbs
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
Magnus Larsson
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
Ralph Bakshi
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
Ian Thorpe
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
Yani Tseng
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
Val Kilmer
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Garry Kasparov -
Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
Ian Mcewan
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
Randall Kennedy
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The analytical faculty is underdeveloped in women.
Enoch Powell
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Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
Barack Obama
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So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun.
Paul Westerberg The Replacements
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In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
Joaquin Phoenix
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
Maurice Sendak
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I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.
Billie Piper