P. D. James Quotes
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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narrating 'Sex' by Madonna on tape: I like my vagina. Sometimes I stare at it in the mirror when I'm undressing, and wonder what it would look like without any hair.
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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
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Luckily, I was raised by a kind of gypsy family, which is why I always get along better with people who worked in circuses than with kids of other actors. My mom was so carefree with us in a beautiful way. We were used to sleeping anywhere.
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I had a multicultural exposure; that's why I don't believe in a particular religion. I have respect for most because I grew up surrounded by so many. I don't judge people by that, and I feel extremely offended when people categorise based on race, religion, or gender.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
