Jenny Shipley Quotes
I hear so many people talking about what's wrong, whether it's climate change or whatever, but so few say, 'Well, look, we've got this problem, so let's find the solution. Let's find a scientist, let's find politicians who are prepared to shape the future, or try and keep up with it.'
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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I'm easily entertained.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I'm an emotional person.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.
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Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain
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I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.
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You never know where inspiration is going to come from.
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I hear so many people talking about what's wrong, whether it's climate change or whatever, but so few say, 'Well, look, we've got this problem, so let's find the solution. Let's find a scientist, let's find politicians who are prepared to shape the future, or try and keep up with it.'
