Zanny Minton Beddoes Quotes
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Some people are gonna hate anything; they're gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything, and that's usually the people who don't ever create anything themselves.
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Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.
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I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
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My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'
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I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.
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Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.
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The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.
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Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.
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