Edwina Findley Quotes
I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.
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The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
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When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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To farm is to be placed absolutely.
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Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and everything because honestly it's a silent black-and-white film.
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I want to go to college if I can. That's really important to me, and I really hope that I get that opportunity to do so.
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While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.
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I've enjoyed collecting. I've enjoyed art ever since - I'll tell you when - I went to Columbia. I went to the Met, and I saw Poussin's 'Rape of the Sabine Women', and it's this incredible, epic, great, great painting.
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I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.
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We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf.
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Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.
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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
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If you live your life and don't confess your sins to God Almighty through the authority of Christ and His blood, I'm going to say this very plainly, you're going straight to hell with a nonstop ticket.
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
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I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.
