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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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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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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I guess artists are living inspiration. There's something very pure about a person that fantasizes. I like hearing their stories, watching them work. Their take on the world interests me. It's not unified.
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It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.
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I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried.
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I reserve the right to be smarter today than I was yesterday.
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
