Claire Tomalin Quotes

You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.

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• Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Time
  • Money
  • Parents

• Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Me
  • Diversity
  • Helpful

• My health is fine.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Health
  • Fine

• No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Successful

• By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Responsibility

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.

  

  Flume
  • Always
  • Dance
  • Difficult

• I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Enjoy
  • Disappointed

• Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • May
  • New
  • Back

• Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Me
  • Courage
  • Girls

• My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Law
  • Me
  • Dad

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Design
  • Clothes

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Time
  • Bible

• Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Love
  • Anything
  • Little

• Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life. The question implied in the ambiguities of life derives to a new question, namely, that of the direction in which life moves. This is the question of history. Systematically speaking, history, characterized as it as by its direction

  

  Paul Tillich
  • Life
  • Long
  • History

• I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Me
  • Hurt

• The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Nature
  • Soul

• I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

  

  Bob Feller
  • People
  • World
  • War

• But this country is a great country and will always rebound.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Great
  • Country
  • Always

• You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • People
  • Understanding