Pam Ferris Quotes
The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'
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I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
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The Department of Energy is a critical component of our efforts to curtail climate change; that work will be less effective unless we collaboratively rebuild confidence in the agency and its programs.
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Senior academic condemns ‘deluded’ supporters of GM food as being ‘anti-science’ and ignoring evidence of dangers (4 March 2015)
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
