Thomas Dewar Quotes
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
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And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.
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Golf is not easy.
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Rafe asks him, could the king's freedom be obtained, sir, with more economy of means? Less bloodshed? Look, he says: once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, one you have fixed on the destruction of an enemy, that destruction must be swift and it must be perfect. Before you even glance in his direction, you should have his name on a warrant, the ports blocked, his wife and friends bought, his heir under your protection, his money in your strong room and his dog running to your whistle. Before he wakes in the morning, you should have the axe in your hand.
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Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
