Claire Tomalin Quotes
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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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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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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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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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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But that was only the beginning of her mortification. Harold had proved her wrong. He had seen that she was a shifty, shallow hypocrite. She had not dared to be alone with him since her exposure. She had never looked at him and had hardly spoken. He seemed cheerful, but what was he thinking? He would never forgive her.
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The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.
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When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.
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I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together.
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Dickens was very practical and sensible.
