Ben Gillies Quotes
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
Tarja Halonen -
The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
Calista Flockhart -
Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
Ippy Aiona -
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
Tadashi Yanai -
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Vince Lombardi
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
Abigail Washburn -
I find that I can't work and listen to radio – either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.
Quentin Blake -
Give me love, like herCos lately I've been waking up alone.The pain splatters teardrops on my shirt.I told you I'd let them go.
Ed Sheeran -
When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
Randy Pausch -
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
V. S. Pritchett -
Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
Orson Scott Card
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We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.
Patrick Marber -
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Isaac Asimov -
As a vegetarian I feel better, I have more energy on and off the set, and I have the satisfaction of knowing that I’m doing something to help stop animal suffering.
Maggie Q -
Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.
Emma Alice Margaret Asquith -
Ἐγὼ διδαχθεὶς ἐν κακοῖς ἐπίσταμαιπολλοὺς καθαρμούς, καὶ λέγειν ὅπου δίκησιγᾶν θ᾽ ὁμοίως.
Aeschylus -
To keep a man (slave or servant) for your own advantage merely, to keep an animal that you may eat it, is a lie. You cannot look that man or animal in the face.
Edward Carpenter
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Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
Bonnie Jo Campbell -
It wasn't until my teenage years that a book really left a mark, and that was George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.' It was on the syllabus at school when I was about 16, and I went on to read more of his books. It was the height of the Cold War, so a lot of the messages really resonated at the time.
John Niven -
Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.
La India -
What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being constructed, that [Alex] Haley was vetting - asking questions to the publisher and to the publisher's attorney regarding many of the things that Malcolm X was saying. He was worried that he would not have a book that would have the kind of sting that he wanted.
Manning Marable -
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
We get cold sores all over our bodies.
Ben Gillies Silverchair