Clara Fraser Quotes

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• Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • God
  • Home

• I like to be supportive and a role model.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Like
  • Model
  • Role

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Time
  • Help
  • Free

• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Water
  • Fat

• The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Way
  • Reason

• The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
  • Think
  • Changing

• There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Important
  • Support
  • Will

• I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Kind

• Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Pretty
  • Words
  • Thought

• I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Father
  • Song
  • Nice

• I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Up
  • Black
  • Myself

• To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Wall
  • Made
  • Response

• Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Long
  • Society
  • Space

• We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.

  

  Baron d'Holbach

• Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • History
  • Air

• I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Good
  • Done
  • Fun

• If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.

  

  R. J. Reynolds
  • Giving
  • Smoking
  • Adults

• In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.

  

  Albert Camus
  • History
  • Dream
  • Errors

• It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

  

  V. S. Pritchett

• Let a million cultural flowers bloom! Spark an explosion of rich, creative, diversified, and exciting art in all its forms.

  

  Clara Fraser
  • Art
  • Cultural
  • Forms