Claire Tomalin Quotes
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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I'd like to be more spontaneous.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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There are no ordinary moments.
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I'm largely in favor of financial reform.
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Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
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I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'
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Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.
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A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanour was now rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.
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She walks-the lady of my delight-A shepherdess of sheep.Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;She keeps them from the steep
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For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.
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It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
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When I started my career, I never looked at myself as one to be inspirational, but as I continued to grow, I've met so many different people who ask, 'How do you do it? You make it look easy.' But it's not easy. I have certain tricks and tips I use every day that have been working for me.
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He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
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One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.
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Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
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I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.
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What feels best is how I no longer hurt.
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Dickens was very practical and sensible.
