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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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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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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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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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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The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.
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I want to give you a way to eat your broccoli in a way that you actually want to eat it.
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You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny.
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And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?
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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.
