Alice Oswald Quotes
Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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It's just that I've always been a tomboy, so being thrown into the hot nerd category and the glam thing has been very interesting for me to swallow.
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
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America is a meritocracy.
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I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.
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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.
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I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
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Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.
