Edmund de Waal Quotes
You just hope, if you make things as I do, that they can make their way in the world and have some longevity.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
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In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
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Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.
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I like to get real pretty.
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I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.
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Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. It’s probably going to be either China, Germany, or America. I want it to be us! We invent the technology, we should make it and use it and export it, which will help to grow our economy.
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Apart from logical cogency, there is to me something a little odd about the ethical valuations of those who think that an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent Deity, after preparing the ground by many millions of years of lifeless nebulae, would consider Himself adequately rewarded by the final emergence of Hitler and Stalin and the H-bomb.
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It's tough, don't get me wrong. You want to be there, and you wish you were there. But things change, and as players things change overnight, and you have to be aware of that.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.
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You just hope, if you make things as I do, that they can make their way in the world and have some longevity.
