Florence Nightingale Quotes
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
Dan Auerbach
The Black Keys
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
Baron Hill
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
Jack Lemmon
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
E. M. Forster
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
Orhan Pamuk
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
Adam Jones
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
Ramez Naam
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I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.
Natalie Cole
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
Ian Somerhalder
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There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
Nathan Fillion
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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
Francia Raisa
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I've got that personality where I've always been determined. As a dancer, I was constantly improving and perfecting. I guess it's innate.
Darcey Bussell
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You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
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It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.
Betty Smith
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I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.
Marton Csokas
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Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Daryn Kagan
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale
