Derek Harold Richard Barton Quotes
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'
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Most people care what people think about them... we all do.
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When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.
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So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.
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In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves.
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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
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Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!
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Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.
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Every chemical reaction has a transition state.