Samantha Bond Quotes
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
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You can have old guys who aren't willing to be coached just like you can have young guys who aren't willing to be coached.
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There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.
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The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.