Jill Paice Quotes
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Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
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Fighting forces, particularly ground forces, have to operate on the basis of unit cohesion.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.
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I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
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Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
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My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.
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I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.
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Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.
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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
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Babies are like the smallest, drunkest people you know.
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Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.
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You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.
