Beeban Kidron Quotes
What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
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The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.
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You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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To wake up when the sun comes up and enjoy that and then, when the sun goes down, to have a nice property or house where I could watch it on my porch when I'm older. It would be peaceful.
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Did you figure out the second head fake? This talk's not for you. It's for my kids.
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I suppose - in the last resort - you trust life - or you don't. Well - I don't. There's something malicious . . . corrupt . . . cruel . . . at the heart of it. We don't belong. We're a mistake.
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It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.
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I want to reach the Mr. Joneses and Mrs. Smiths who wouldn't give Waco a second thought.
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One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.
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As a child, I lived through and survived the segregated South. I sat at the back of the bus at a time when America wasn't yet as great as it could be. As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future.
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I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.
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What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?
