Claire Tomalin Quotes
Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.
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Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when students get excited about learning and apply themselves; students do this when they experience great teachers.
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Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
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Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
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Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.
