Jacqueline Winspear Quotes
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
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I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.
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The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.
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In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.
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I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.
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Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.
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I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.
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Social actions means that you find an issue in your community, and you create an initiative to solve that issue or to help people.
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It's 2013, and you can make music anywhere. We've got laptops.
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So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.
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It was time to move on, to dance with life again.
