Louise Rennison Quotes

My cousin Georgia says that boys are like gazelles. She says the get alarmed when they get close to girls. And they have to leap off into the woods like gazelles in trousers. Or have I just made that up?

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• One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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  • Always
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• I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
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• The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

  

  G. Hannelius
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  • Great
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• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
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• There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Myself
  • Never
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• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
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• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
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• We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

  

  J. B. Priestley
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• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Love
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• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
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• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  

  Bear Grylls
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  • Faith
  • Personal

• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
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• There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

  

  Orlando Brown
  • World
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  • Animals

• Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
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  • Live

• We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Desire
  • Creative
  • Active

• I do feel a responsibility to try and raise awareness and to help tell the stories of those who may not otherwise have a voice.

  

  Gemma Chan
  • May
  • Help
  • Responsibility

• Most companies overlook the most basic of all training functions: the onboarding of new employees into their corporate culture.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Culture
  • Training

• Everything we do is very, very touched by what happens in Washington.

  

  Bob Latta

• I'm a sock guy.

  

  David Boreanaz
  • Guy

• No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him. We need more of this 'being asleep' in the will of God.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • People
  • God
  • Sleep

• My cousin Georgia says that boys are like gazelles. She says the get alarmed when they get close to girls. And they have to leap off into the woods like gazelles in trousers. Or have I just made that up?

  

  Louise Rennison
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