Heather Watson Quotes
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina has done what many said was impossible even a year ago, let alone at the start of my mandate in May 2002. For the country now stands at the gates of Europe, ... This is a truly remarkable achievement for a country as war-torn as Bosnia and Herzegovina was just 10 years ago.
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I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.
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My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
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While change is rarely comfortable, I am happy to say that we not only survived but also grew more capable in the process - seeding much of the information revolution which now pervades the world in which we live.
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Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
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Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.
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Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
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I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.
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There have been millions of gays in the service for many years. It's ridiculous to think they can't do as good a job as anybody else.
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I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance, . . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.
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Maybe I've been wanting the wrong things.
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It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.
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Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.
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Why this would happen to us? I don't know. We've had three tough losses and a total of five tough losses. I wouldn't want a different group to coach. These are the guys I like. It's up to us, and we're going to see what's going to happen down the road.
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People nowadays are obsessed with golden awards, about who is the best — when we know in reality the one with more money wins.
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Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.
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Wins and losses just blur into one as you move around the world playing matches.
