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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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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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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You know in America the general consensus is that rock is dead. Ever since the alternative thing came in. With rock, it's like they just don't want to know about it.
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Mr. Neo-Angular – I am doing my duty. My ethics are based on dogma, not on feeling. Vertue – I know that a rule is to be obeyed because it is a rule and not because it appeals to my feelings at the moment.
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You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.
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I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?
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I had fun doing both types of roles. Both are good. One day you laugh, and the next day you cry. That's how it is.
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Dickens was very practical and sensible.
