Jeanette Winterson Quotes
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
Quotes to Explore
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
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Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
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I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
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People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.
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To be honest, I just didn't want to say "Thank you," "Please," and "Come again" for the rest of my life. I felt like if I wanted to do this - films and TV - I didn't have the expectation that someone else would write for me. So I started writing for myself. And for the most part, I lied.
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The creature displayed the qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?
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From what we understand about participation by women and minorities, we need to do a better job of exposing people early in their careers to STEM fields.
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I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though I'm not by any means an expert, but I love reading about physics and math and that kind of stuff. I wish I knew more than I did. I mean, I read books written for laymen, not textbooks or anything.
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
