Harriet Martineau Quotes
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
Quotes to Explore
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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Let us have peace.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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Where could we find an instance of cultural pathology which philosophy restored to health? If philosophy ever manifested itself as helpful, redeeming, or prophylactic, it was in a healthy culture. The sick, it made even sicker.
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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You can ask me anything you want. That doesn't mean I'm going to answer you.
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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
