Emma Alice Margaret Asquith (Margot Asquith) Quotes
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When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten children. I would always draw the children, and they included blond-haired twin boys whom I named Theodore and Frederick: Teddy and Freddy for short.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
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I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
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I seem to be landing a lot of roles with animal interactions, which is amazing.
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I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
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I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,And pause a while from learning to be wise.There mark what ills the scholar's life assail - Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
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It is very natural that clever young men should be rather odious. They are conscious of gifts that they do not know how to use. They are exasperated with the world that will not recognize their merit. They have something to give, and no hand is stretched out to receive it. They are impatient for the fame they regard as their due.
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You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.
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I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.
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God was a clever idea … The human race came up with a winner there.
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The mistake is to think that clever technology can solve everything, but it can't solve our relationship with nature, which is where I think it's gone wrong in that we have somehow abandoned our proper connection with nature.
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At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.
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We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
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I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
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Lamachus: Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much! (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, Perseus)
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He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
