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 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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When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
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For sure, Potrero Chico is a super nice winter vacation climbing area. It's really convenient to fly into Monterrey, one of the nicer cities in Mex, and get a taxi to Potero. Then you can just live in the camping area and walk everywhere. It's muy tranquilo, as they say there.
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Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
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I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.
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This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.
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Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
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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.
