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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Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.
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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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It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.
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I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.
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I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."
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I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.
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Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because it is a self capable of experiencing happiness and misery and endowed with the power to choose between good and evil. The love of humans is thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will.
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I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.
