Anthony Standen Quotes
There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.
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I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
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My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.
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It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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Breakfast is a peaceful moment for me, so I never have the radio on, no music, no noise around. The only noise that is permitted is people's voices. It's a way for me to wake up without too much of a high speed feeling.
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Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
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I don't think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you're lucky if you find something you like to do, which is true, and then it's a miracle if you get paid to do it.
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Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.
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Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.
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There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.
