John Vane Quotes

We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local state school from the age of five. I then went on to King Edward VI High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

John Vane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 29, 1927 - November 19, 2004

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While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.

Max Carver

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Men don't really like skinny, do they?

Angelina Jolie

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When I was in the Sex Pistols, I listened to Boston. But I couldn't tell anybody, you know. I'd get lynched.

Steve Jones

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Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

Mike Myers

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Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.

Anthony Marra

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I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

Audrey Hepburn

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I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

Alicia Keys

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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

Alfred Hitchcock

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Leveraging cloud, mobility, you process things in a different way. For example, in insurance, you can access more claims through cloud, which makes a big difference in emerging markets, where the populations are large.

Pierre Nanterme

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People go shopping, we spend on so many things, and we just don't know. We don't know the prices of things. But gasoline, even when you're not buying, it's staring you in the face. Psychologists call this 'salience.'

Sendhil Mullainathan

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And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

Scott Hamilton

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I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to get a history lesson on the Roman Empire. It was about love, sex, and also about dynastic troubles.

Richard Flanagan

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