Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes
As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Music is the way I talk to people.
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I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.
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If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists?
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I don't marry myself to one belief system.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
