Clementine Paddleford Quotes
Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.
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The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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There's a common misconception that you don't need SPF during the grey winter months, but it's so important to protect skin from UVA/UVB rays year-round.
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This theatre is your theatre. You are responsible for its creation and its progress.
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There’s nothing like deduction. We’ve determined everything about our problem but the solution.
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Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.
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Only the free mind knows what Love is.
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May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is - and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
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I signed up with Kundalini yoga teacher training, which has been shifting me in some really beautiful ways.
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I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.
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To be the first British athlete to win a gold is amazing, but to win it in the U.K. is something else. Also, having my family here with me has made it extra special, and I know all my friends back home have been cheering me on and putting posters in their windows. I want to thank them all.
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The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor – hence, on the changing state of business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition.
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
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The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available.
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Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
