Samantha Bond Quotes
Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.
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I'm pretty sure the world is in solid agreement that "The Wire" is worth watching all the way through.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
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It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
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Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.