Penelope Wilton Quotes
I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
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I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
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My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.
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I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
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American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.
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With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.
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He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.
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I'd rather tell you how I really feel.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
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I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?
