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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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
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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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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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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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Fear is what makes comedy funny.
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The Bible clearly says that when we have a problem with our brother, we are to go to them and try to resolve the situation.
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The mind is everything. What you think you become.
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'They'll bloody kill you.' 'Maybe they'll turn and run. 'God save Ireland, and why would they do that?' 'Because God wears a green jacket, of course.'
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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.
