William Gilbert (Gilberd) Quotes
A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients considered to be a living soul in the sky, in the globes and in the stars, in the sun and in the moon.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I've been training quite hard.
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Any proposal that allows people who are here illegally to cut to the front of the line is amnesty.
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It's been a while since I've been to church, but you don't get unborn again.
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I lean on a lot of drivers. I have a dirt racing background so I gravitate towards asking for advice from drivers who also dirt race, people like Clint Bowyer since dirt racers seem to have a similar driving style and like the car set up similarly.
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Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
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A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients considered to be a living soul in the sky, in the globes and in the stars, in the sun and in the moon.
