Beeban Kidron Quotes
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That's the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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People see what they want to see.
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When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.
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Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
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I was performing from the age of three.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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There was an attraction at first that Mr Baldwin should not be clever. But when he forever sentimentalises about his own stupidity, the charm is broken.
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That's a great job for (Larry), ... (There's) a lot of money there. It's home.
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During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.
