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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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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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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Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.
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I remember watching 'Quantum Leap' when I was a kid with my family, so I think that's fun and nostalgic.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.
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I had Dell for four and a half years, and its sales are still phenomenal, but their operating margins started to contract, so I sold it in early 1999. There's nothing wrong with Dell! It's a fine company. It's just the business risk they took.
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