Wendy Cope Quotes
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
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You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.
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We live in an age where technology is so powerful that we can make change without even leaving our computers or cell phones.
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Most of the fans have ideas about their perfect phone. But many of them can't do it because building a phone is tough. So they would give us feedback about the features that they think should be included in our next model. And if we incorporated that in our new phone, they will share the good news with their friends.
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I think the Oscar is the big money award; that means you've made it in a money sense. The Tony has always represented - to me, and most actors that I've talked to - an artistic award. It means you're an artist and not just a popular performer.
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For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.
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I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
