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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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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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 -
I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.
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Nothing is more important than when you see someone for the first time, and you get that feeling where you can't move or speak or do anything until you know that person and take a sense of who they are with you.
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I love the smell of a man's skin.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
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Sir, your ideas are incorrect in every possible respect.
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He could chafe against the rich and privileged but he acknowledged that the army had taken him from the gutter and put an officer's sash round his waiste and Sharpe could think of no other job that would offer a low-born bastard on the run from the law the chance of rank and responsibility.
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But woman's grief is like a summer storm,Short as it violent is.
