Val McDermid Quotes
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
Nancy Greene -
I am always locked in my design studio.
Valentino Garavani -
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
Camille Paglia -
I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
Natascha McElhone -
I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
Aaron Neville -
The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
Frances Beinecke
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
Ice T -
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
B. F. Skinner -
I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
Kailash Satyarthi -
Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
Daley Thompson -
The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
Gary Lineker
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I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
Valeria Mazza -
I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
Eartha Kitt -
I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
Ingmar Bergman -
Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
Warren Spector -
I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
Victor Ponta -
Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
Daley Thompson
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
Haile Gebrselassie -
You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.
Carl Hagelin -
My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
K. D. Lang -
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
H. G. Bissinger -
The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
Lamar Odom -
I'd like to be more spontaneous.
Val McDermid