Claire Tomalin Quotes
Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.Claire Tomalin
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
Karen Morley -
I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
Mallory Ortberg -
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
Laura Mennell -
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
Hakeem Jeffries -
I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
Larry Holmes -
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
Ted Danson -
New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
Maggie Hassan -
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
Victor Ponta -
I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
Barry Bonds -
My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
Uzo Aduba
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
Camille Paglia -
I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
Jack Nicholson -
I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
Rainn Wilson -
I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
Garry Trudeau -
We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.
Dan Marino -
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
Gaylord Nelson
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When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.
Alex Trebek -
Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults say this to children I look into their faces. They look like someone on the top seat of the Ferris wheel who has had too much cotton candy and barbecue. They'd like to get off and be sick but everyone keeps telling them what a good time they're having.
Erma Bombeck -
It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.
Francis Atterbury -
When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.
Erma Bombeck -
Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.
Claire Tomalin