Emma Tennant Quotes

Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.

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• Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

  

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• Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

  

  Larry Page
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• It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

  

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• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

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• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  

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• Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

  

  FKA twigs
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• It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

  

  Dana Carvey
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• Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?

  

  Saint Bernard
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• In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
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• I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.

  

  Gail Simmons
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• I'd never been published when I was young.

  

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• Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

  

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• Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.

  

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• I'm an emotional guy.

  

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• Studies show when people yell, they get themselves even angrier. Interesting factoid: If you and/or your partner's heartbeat becomes higher than 100 beats per minute during an argument, you will not be able to fully understand/process what the other is saying.

  

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• A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

  

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• That's hot.

  

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• I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

  

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• People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.

  

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• I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

  

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• My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus. It's that kind of morning.

  

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• And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.

  

  William Eggleston
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• Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.

  

  Emma Tennant
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