Clare Balding Quotes

Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.

Clare Balding

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• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.

  

  T. V. Carpio
  • Day
  • Years
  • Skating

• If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Day
  • Balance

• Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Violence

• Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Evolution
  • Brains

• The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Day

• I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Very

• Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • People
  • Culture
  • Faith

• Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Art
  • Political
  • Education

• When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Myself
  • Eye

• We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Trying
  • Blame
  • Skinniness

• I can never really enjoy being famous.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Never
  • Enjoy
  • Famous

• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Age
  • First
  • Ever

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Great
  • Why

• I hate to travel with stuff.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Hate
  • Travel
  • Stuff

• In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Business
  • Running
  • Competition

• You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • You

• It's a complicated relationship with a guitar. I love the Bullet, for sure.

  

  Laurent Brancowitz Phoenix
  • Relationship

• I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Age
  • Fashion
  • Books

• Fair stands the ancient Rectory, The Rectory of Croft, The sun shines bright upon it, The breezes whisper soft. From all the house and garden Its inhabitants come forth, And muster in the road without, And pace in twos and threes about, The children of the North.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Children
  • House
  • Road

• There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Age

• Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Children