Bonnie Langford Quotes
I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.
Quotes to Explore
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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When a song wants to be written, it will be written.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
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I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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It's time to close Gitmo.
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The majority of the economic oscillations which we encounter seem to be explained most plausibly as free oscillations.
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Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.
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I didn't love him, but I liked him being in love with me.
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The reason we can't attain the highest level of knowledge while incarnate is that we can't then wholly escape the influence of the body (and so of perception and of certain desires that take us away from thinking properly); and that prevents us from understanding fully what forms are, which one must do in order to have the highest level of knowledge.
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The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.
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I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.
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I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.
