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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I'm trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.
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You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
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The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.
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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.
