Nancy Astor Quotes
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.
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Over the years, I've had to learn how to deal with people who refuse to take me seriously. That's where I learnt the blunt side of my character.
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We have something special...a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically everybody.
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Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.
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I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.
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When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
