Samantha Bond Quotes
My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I'm very open-minded.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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I read on the Internet that I was dead.
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I have two iPhones: one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.
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The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.
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A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.
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I never, ever talk about writing to anyone at all.
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Puberty was the most horrifying time of my life.
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My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.
