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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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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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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Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.
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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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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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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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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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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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I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'
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You say it best, when you say nothing at all.
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We're in the sunshine. That means negatives will come out. That's OK.
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A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
