Beeban Kidron Quotes
I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
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Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
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During what years should a child be introduced to better ways of giving and receiving criticisms – to what I call 'relationship language'? Before school age. The best teacher? Parents.
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The more successful a political party, the more winning its ways, the less of its time is spent casting about for policy or determining it principles. But, political parties with principles or even without them, have a common need for money; someone has to pay for the television commercials.
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I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.
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As much as I want to help people, I had to accept the fact long ago that being stupid with money isn't illegal.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.
