Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes
“But we’re not trying to empty the Thames,” she told him. “Look at what we’re doing with the water we remove. It doesn’t go to waste. We’re using it to water our gardens, sprout by sprout. We’re growing bluebells and clovers where once there was a desert. All you see is the river, but I care about the roses.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
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There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.
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Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.
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I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.
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I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."
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mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.
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When they're good, I like working with new actors.
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“But we’re not trying to empty the Thames,” she told him. “Look at what we’re doing with the water we remove. It doesn’t go to waste. We’re using it to water our gardens, sprout by sprout. We’re growing bluebells and clovers where once there was a desert. All you see is the river, but I care about the roses.
