Bill Courtney Quotes
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.
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There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
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I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
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The lightt of love flows out of our soul, but often it is blocked by our fear to show it.
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Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.
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We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.
