Peter Hollingworth Quotes

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.

Peter Hollingworth

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GreatSchoolTroubleAlwaysEither

It's definitely a little bit ironic being known for my hair because, as a little girl, I had no idea what I was doing with it. I was insecure about it. I didn't have as many references to curly girls, and I wanted to just fit in with all my other friends.

Jillian Hervey

GirlHairFriendsDoingCurlyJust

People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

Joanna Coles

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I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it's surreal. It's so close, but you feel like you're in another world or on an island.

Jemima Kirke

VacationWorldWeirdFeelYouPlace

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.

John Singleton

AgeHonorFilmmakingYoungMovies

The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand.

Stella Young

FearPeopleDiscriminationAustralia

Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.

Steven Pinker

SpiritOverNobleGetJudaismJews

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins

LoveTimeLookingPerfectCreating

I never lost a fight because I wasn't in shape or because I wasn't ready. I lost because I was either beaten by a man better than me, or it wasn't my night.

Micky Ward

ManFightMeNightBetterReady

All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn't whether our food has been modified, but how.

Michael Specter

FoodQuestionEatCornRiceHere

My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.

Mitchell Zuckoff

MoneyWeekYearNewOldPay

Tom Ford gave me high heels for the baby. They're a little kitten heel with a velvet rope that you tie. It's like a collection piece. I have to put it on the bookshelf, framed.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

MeBabyYouHigh HeelsRopeHigh

My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.

Cory Gardner

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