C. V. Wedgwood Quotes
A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.
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I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.
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In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
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When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.
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A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
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I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.
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My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
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The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
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People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
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CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it is appropriate. When the internal dynamics ask you whether you have a replacement. I think the transition from CEOships have also become cartoonish.
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I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.
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It can be more productive to help people learn to be 'right' than prove they were 'wrong.'
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One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
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A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
