Anna Seward Quotes
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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I'm always so sick of myself after a show.
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I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive.
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I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
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If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It also has to look at cognition itself, something we have never done before in economics.
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Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
