Clare Balding Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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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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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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When I was still a bright-eyed McKinsey consultant, I remember hitting a point where I didn't know what to do next, and someone gave me the book, 'How Remarkable Women Lead,' and I read it and scribbled in it, and it felt like a guide in helping me figure out my career.
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I fell in love with L.A. To me, it is the most quintessentially American city.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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I didn't grow up with pets, but I live alone and figured a dog might be good for me. His name is Drexl, and he's a shih-tzu.
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I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.
