Alexander Pope Quotes
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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Senegal needs a renaissance.
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I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!
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I'd rather live in the gutter embracing reality than live like a king embracing unreality. 4
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What feels best is how I no longer hurt.
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I told Johnson and old colleagues on Capitol Hill that we had two clear choices. Either win the Vietnam war in a relatively short time, say within a year, or pull out all our troops and come home.
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Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
