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 get to choose the people I work with.
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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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Jose DeLeon on his career has seventy-three wins and one-hundred and five RBIs.
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If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.
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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.
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On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.
