Linda Colley Quotes

Since the Second World War, as female expectations and opportunities have risen, becoming a royal woman - and remaining a royal woman - has seemed less and less an attractive proposition.

Linda Colley

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There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

John C. Calhoun

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I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out.

Jerry Harrison

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In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.

Jeff Bridges

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The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.

John Updike

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I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line.

Steve Case

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I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.

Siobhan Fahey

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There is only one entity which I built, which is HCL. And the legacy which I want to leave behind that is in my name. There is only one thing which bears my name in the doorsteps - that is only the University and the foundation. And that legacy will not have a price tag.

Shiv Nadar

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Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.

Tony Buzan

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To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

Rodrigo Rato

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The way that Soviet intelligence tried to reshape the balance of power in the Middle East is essential to understand the developments that led to the outbreak of the Six-Day War.

Ronen Bergman

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I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.

DeForest Kelley

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We're all human. It's the most important, neglected fact in business.

Chip Conley

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