Cicely Mary Barker Quotes
Tis I whom children love the best; My wealth is all for them; For them is set each glossy cup Upon each sturdy stem.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.
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Twitter has restored my faith in humanity. I thought I'd hate it, but while there are lots of knobheads, there are even more lovely people. It delights me how witty and friendly most people are.
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I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.
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Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible - that there has always been child suffering and there always will be. We know. It's impossible only if we make it so. It's impossible only if we refuse to attempt it.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
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Tis I whom children love the best; My wealth is all for them; For them is set each glossy cup Upon each sturdy stem.
