Mariella Frostrup Quotes

My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.

Mariella Frostrup

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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.

John Negroponte

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I was playing the piano when I was three, writing songs when I was ten. I had a lot of experience before I got to college. I knew I wanted to be a singer, so anyone who met me, I didn't let too much time pass before I showed my talent.

John Legend

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It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.

John Holdren

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I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies.

Michael Douglas

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I binge pretty much everything. If I'm watching something, I'm bingeing it. I binged 'The Good Place' recently. 'Handmaid's Tale.'

Shonda Rhimes

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When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

Roberto Unger

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I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

Mickey Rourke

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You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.

Joy Page

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The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.

Chiang Kai-shek

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A record is a commodity, but so is a hamburger. Just because I work at McDonald's doesn't mean I reap the benefits of that commodity. That's the reality with most artists in the record industry: They're getting paid a subsistence wage so they can keep producing a commodity for the record label.

Boots Riley

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The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can't succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that's a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want.

Phyllis Schlafly

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