Joanna Baillie Quotes
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
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Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
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By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
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We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.
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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
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The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
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In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.
Garry Kasparov
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But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?
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I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in.
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My dad's always taught me how to do stuff on my own.
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It's a mixed feeling when everything you've ever wanted in making films is coming true, and yet you feel scared because it's happening all at once. Suddenly you're in rooms with people you've looked up to for years, the Judi Denches. You wonder if you're good, if you have what it takes.
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Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.
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But woman's grief is like a summer storm,Short as it violent is.
