Rachel Riley Quotes
When I was little, I carried a book of times tables around everywhere and always tried to get the best score. I like the fact that you don't need any tools, only your head. I also enjoy rules and, with maths, you are either right or wrong.
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I'm very self-critical.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
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I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.
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I've been in many auditions thinking, 'God, do I have to take my shirt off?'
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I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
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All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.
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For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
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Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
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I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.
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From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
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My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they're horrible.
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No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.
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But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.
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It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's right between us, always.
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Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
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When I was little, I carried a book of times tables around everywhere and always tried to get the best score. I like the fact that you don't need any tools, only your head. I also enjoy rules and, with maths, you are either right or wrong.
