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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Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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When I close my eyes, I see champions on a podium.
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I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
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All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.
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The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.
