Amanda de Cadenet Quotes
If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was raised to believe I was capable of doing anything I set my mind to.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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I'm very lucky, in that I've known Adele for quite some time.
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Beauty is a form of Genius — is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.
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Making sounds that literally no one has ever heard before because the software and the technology's never been there, and pairing that with great songwriting, then that's what's exciting for me. That's what I wanna do.
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Life is like an elevator. Up and down, just make sure you get off on the right floor.
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If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was raised to believe I was capable of doing anything I set my mind to.
