Morag Joss Quotes
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
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I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.
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I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
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We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
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As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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There is a lot more hard work to do in the future for the well-being of our sisters and brothers, the people of Thailand.
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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
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We try so hard to be happy that we end up missing the most important parts of our lives and destroying the very peace that we were seeking
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things.
