William Osler Quotes
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.
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Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
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I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian religion has brought far more misery crime and suffering far more tyranny and evil than any other.
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I had to live through being a woman who thought men always had a one-up... I knew I didn't like it. I thought that's how it was.
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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
