George Bentham Quotes
I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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Truth is the best defense.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series.
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I'm not just a voice who wants to sing on anything. I co-produce, I want to select who comes in and plays on what songs, who to duet with and all of it.
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For Secret Santa a few years ago, I bought one of the lads I used to play with a block of cheese.
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All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.
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The Angel's bread is made the Bread of man today.
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I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
