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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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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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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It is not a coincidence that Fusion middleware and applications have the same name. We knew what we needed it to be.
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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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I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
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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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Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
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Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.
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It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.
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What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.
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California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.
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Dickens was very practical and sensible.
