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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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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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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I support renewable energy.
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If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.
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I think about Laura Bush every once in awhile. She is a great supporter of the arts. I did a show at the Eisenhower Theater, and she would make a point of coming backstage. The relationship between Laura and George Bush was always that way where you felt like he was at his best behavior when he was in her company.
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If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.
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People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.
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Dickens was very practical and sensible.