Abigail Tarttelin Quotes
Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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People take things so seriously.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
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We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.
