Carol Vorderman Quotes
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
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When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
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Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.
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You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
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I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.
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College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.
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I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.
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President Bush said that if illegal immigrants want citizenship, they'd have to do three things: pay taxes, hold meaningful jobs, and learn English. Bush doesn't meet those qualifications.
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One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
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There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
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One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
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When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.
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It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.
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But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.
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I do need my independence. I have to have that.
