Anselm of Canterbury Quotes
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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For me, family has always come first.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover’s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.
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Solitude is Wisdom’s school. Attend then the lessons of your own soul; become a pupil of the wise God within you, for by his tuitions alone shall you grow into the knowledge and stature of the deities. The seraphs descend from heaven, in the solitudes of meditation, in the stillness of prayer.
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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
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Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.
