Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Quotes
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
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I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.
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What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.
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There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.
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Le progrès, cette grande hérésie de la décrépitude.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I enjoy thinking about how race plays out over the centuries, how technology evolves, how cities transform themselves. These subjects are present in some of my books and absent in others.
Colson Whitehead -
I don't think the majority of people - to be quite honest - care. I think they see me as someone who was at one stage of my life in the IRA, but they see me in the round, as someone who was able to make peace.
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Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
