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.
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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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When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.
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Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.
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When I make a commitment I stick to it.
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I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
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I think to eat cake is very good for us, but it's the size of the slice and how often you have it.
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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.
