Jaime Winstone Quotes
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
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I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.
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A will finds a way.
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Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
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It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.
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I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.
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Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.
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Work until your idols become your rivals
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It's always tea-time.
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With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.
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I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.
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I put myself under immense pressure.
