Paloma Faith Quotes
I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
Laura Riding
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
Felix Baumgartner
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
Feist
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
Larry Ellison
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria
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My worst expectations never happened.
Barbara Bush
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
Taylor Sheridan
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. Mencken
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
Karel Capek
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
Laura Marling
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
Gary Miller Bad Brains
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I am a big music nerd.
Olivia Wilde
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
M. J. Rose
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
Pankaj Mishra
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The advent of so much dribbling has created a different kind of player, and it starts at a very early age. We have so many gifted ball handlers. Everything is pick-and-roll. Unless he's a catch-and-shoot guy, a player is going to put it on the floor and attack. Kevin Durant is a wonderful ball handler.
Jerry West
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I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.
Amy Purdy
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I'm a tomboy. I used to get into a lot of fights. Don't know why - self-expression, I guess.
Lena Headey
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
Dabney Coleman
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When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
Barbara Mandrell
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I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.
Paloma Faith