Andrea Leadsom Quotes
Transparency will be at the heart of everything I do - it's what parliament expects, and it's what the public deserves.
Quotes to Explore
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
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I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere that our paintings would stay forever." So this idea came to me. I said, "She's right, we should have a place to keep them, and not only Iranian art works, but also of foreign artists."
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If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.
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Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
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I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.
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Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.
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Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.
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There's no way out of here.
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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.
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Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'.
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You can find me in the frozen mood section.
