Vera Brittain Quotes
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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Ὅρκοις τὰ μὴ δίκαια μὴ νικᾶν λέγω.
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I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.
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Mumbai is home to us. Medina was born in Munich because Roya's family lives in Germany and she had five sisters to help her while I was travelling for work.
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If you don't want to put on any makeup, try some fake eyelashes. They make your eyes pop and give you a little confidence boost.
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When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
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The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.
