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.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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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.
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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.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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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.
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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.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
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I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally.
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When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.
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What a scandal to hear nature deprecated in comparison to Greek statues by one who knows neither one nor the other without acknowledging that the smallest part of Nature confounds and amazes those who know most. What statue or cast of it might there be that is not copied from divine nature?
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I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.
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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.
