Ann Bancroft Quotes
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
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But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.
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It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.
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Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.
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Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.
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The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
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I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.
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I've got this great home life I want to keep living, and I don't want to neglect it.
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A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.
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I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
