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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The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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I think I was blessed with this talent for a reason. No one told me how to write a song, but I'm just good at it, you know. There are a lot of other things in my life that I'm not so good at, but writing a song is not one of them.
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It took me a while to affirm the fact that I'm actually a really good writer. I couldn't even call myself a writer with a straight face because I didn't take my gift seriously.
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People go to their jobs and hate it every day, but they have great ideas. Put that same time and effort into something you love - it really starts with being honest with yourself.
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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.
