Claire Tomalin Quotes
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
Wayne Rogers -
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot -
Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
Warren Farrell -
I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
Ice Cube -
Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
Vanessa Carlton -
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
Daniel Craig
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
Kate Christensen -
For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
Naomie Harris -
The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
Raghuram Rajan -
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
Sam Neill -
When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
Otis Blackwell -
When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
Nadia Comaneci
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I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
Hailee Steinfeld -
If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
Adam Clayton U2 -
Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Kate Grenville -
An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.
Tariq Ali -
The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.
Vicente del Bosque -
People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do you make. When really, what it is is an API for programmable cash transactions.
Naval Ravikant
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Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
Samuel Chase -
You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.
Kirk Kerkorian -
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
Katharine Whitehorn -
To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse
H. L. Mencken -
I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.
Claire Tomalin