Penny Lancaster Quotes
I was bullied from the age of 11 onwards. I was always much bigger than the other kids. I spoke nicely, didn't swear, and I refused to try to fit in and be like everyone else. People assumed I thought I was above everyone else.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I tend to stay away from the comics.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.
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I was making projections about 'Humans of New York,' back when I had zero followers, that made all my friends and family roll their eyes. I'd throw out these huge numbers: 'One day, a million people are gonna be looking at this. Trust me.' And even those wild, wild numbers I was throwing out have just been smashed. So, it's a good feeling.
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I've always been a big Western fan.
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An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
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An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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I was bullied from the age of 11 onwards. I was always much bigger than the other kids. I spoke nicely, didn't swear, and I refused to try to fit in and be like everyone else. People assumed I thought I was above everyone else.
