Claire Tomalin Quotes
When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.
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Funny is an attitude.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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I know what poverty is.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.
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There is no possible justification or excuse for marketing dangerous weapons to children as if they were toys.
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I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.
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May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.
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When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.
