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."

Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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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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• 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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• Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

  

  Kirk Cameron
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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."

  

  Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
  • Death
  • Care
  • DNA