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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As though a tongueless nightingale should swellHer throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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I'm trying to set a good example. I don't need to take a high salary, which would impede the success of Morningstar.
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I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64 K to 640 K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
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Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
