Carol Vorderman Quotes
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?
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By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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I have always done work to which my heart says yes.
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I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.
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I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.
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I actually voted for Nader.
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As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.
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I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
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I'm not real good at surfing, and I'm terrified of sharks. That's, like, one of my main fears. Snakes, sharks, deep water, and commitment. I think those are my four big ones.
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Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life.
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Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.
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I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did all right in English, history and music, which were the subjects that most interested me.
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After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.
