Mel C (Melanie Jayne Chisholm) Quotes
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
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I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
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Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
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I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.
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I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.
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If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.
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Our debts don't leave us much in terms of choices. We can choose to pay now or try to pay later. But the longer we wait the steeper the bill.
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My friends joke I'm a 90-year-old stuck in a young man's body.
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Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
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Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.
