Florence Nightingale Quotes
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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There are women whose love only ends with death.
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I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.
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My favorite outfit is like a 'Peaky Blinders' kind of look. I have a really old-man style.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
