Clare Balding Quotes
Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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A family is definitely in my future, but I have no idea when. I don't know how people fit it in with an acting career, but they do. Katherine Parkinson is a great example of that, so I'll have to ask her.
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I've been a fan of bass fishing for as long as I can remember.
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Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.
