Clare Balding Quotes
I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I think when people are jumping on top of each other's ideas, it elevates it a lot more than me going into the studio and working on something all by myself for a while.
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You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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Hanging out with Pierce Brosnan on the set of 'A Long Way Down' was quite an extraordinary thing to do. The interesting thing is, he never behaves like a star. He's a really nice man.
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I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.
