Zanny Minton Beddoes Quotes
Free-trade enthusiasts fret that regional trade arrangements divert more trade than they create.
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Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
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If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.
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I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
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I don't mean to be funny.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
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I do not fear grassy tracks. Whether there is grass or not on the wicket, I am not worried.
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The shooting is one long battle against the aggressive obstinacy of the 'directress' bitch and her clod of a cameraman - and the two of them stick solidly together in their obduracy.
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Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
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'Money's not interesting - too easy to get hold of.'
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Free-trade enthusiasts fret that regional trade arrangements divert more trade than they create.
