Allan Stratton Quotes
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I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
Danica McKellar
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
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Golf is not easy.
Yani Tseng
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
Ian Rankin
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
Daniel Barenboim
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Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
Mac DeMarco
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Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.
Yael Naim
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I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.
Garrison Keillor
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
Imelda Marcos
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Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
Camille Paglia
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I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.
Sally Hawkins
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Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.
Virginia Woolf
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It's sad to be losing it in that format. But we plan to go out with a bang, to take pride and joy in making each show the best ever.
Chris Berman
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Don't have time for memories, too busy making them.
Allan Stratton
