Nan Fairbrother Quotes
happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.
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The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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My dreams are all follies.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
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In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.
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My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
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One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.
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Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
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If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others.
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Employers are looking for individuals who can tell a story about what they bring to a particular company, and people with an understanding of that have a much better chance of getting to where they want to go.
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happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.
