Anna Chancellor Quotes
Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.
Quotes to Explore
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.
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With Kickstarter, people are patrons of the arts. With Mosaic, people can be clean-energy investors like Warren Buffett.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.
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He was a great man. And he was also me.
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Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.
