Claire Tomalin Quotes
Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
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I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.
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Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.
