Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Quotes
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death."
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
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Our policy is not to discourage the private sector, but to see that Air India plays the role of flagship in the industry. In the transport sector, Air India is the 'fate of India' and all efforts will be made to restore its past glory.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
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I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.
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I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
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From old Belerium to the northern main.
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It is not our policy to suppress success.
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I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.
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Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.
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If I can do it, little old me, you can do it. Trust and believe.
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We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death."
