Mariella Frostrup Quotes
Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.
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When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.
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If I were to reason like those who roll out red carpets, I would say we might have some repatriations from the City of London.
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I think I intimidate hecklers because I weigh more than most of them.
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I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.
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Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.
