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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When we get people to log in, they end up using Quora a lot more, and we can provide a lot better experience for them. We can show them a personalized news feed; we can send them digest emails and do all this ranking to find some stuff they want to read.
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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 think interviews are good when you are an actual fan of the person you are interviewing.
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Blowing people's minds is one of my favorite things to do.
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Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.
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When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'
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Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.
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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.
