Beeban Kidron Quotes
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In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
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I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
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I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.
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People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.
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If no one is corrupt, no one will be poor.
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’Tis possible, young sir, that some excessMars youthful judgment and old men’s no less;Yet we must take our counsel as we mayFor (flying years this lesson still convey),’Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise,And not to use, but still correct one’s eyes.
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A representative is free delivery; she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch.
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My father had lived in the States in the 1960s for a while and came to love American Songbook material. Even today, he sometimes recognizes singers that I never even heard of, which is beautiful and inspiring.
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I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
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A race cannot be purified from without.
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When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at all. And it's such a profound part of the human experience that it's a really big thing to leave out.
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I don't like watching shows where all of a sudden you're like, what happened? They shot the last season in Las Vegas?
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We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.
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I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.
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A lot of the songs in 'See Jane Sing!' are pulled straight from the kitchen table and my parents harmonizing together.
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I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
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What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.
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It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge?
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I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and too opinionated to become a good terrorist.
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Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.
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We pass through this world but once.
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I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.
