Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Quotes

When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 9, 1836 - December 17, 1917

Topics

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I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.

John Corey Whaley

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I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom's skirt trying to look like a ballerina.

Andreja Pejic

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Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.

Matt Groening

LifeLiveBeginningNightAmerican

Pursuing music eats into your life to the point where there is no space left for anything else. You are lucky if you find a partner who is able to understand that, but even then, they will only understand it for a while, and then things get - you know, difficult.

Jean-Michel Jarre

LifeMusicSpacePartnerYouFind

I want to be an artist. I don't want to be a celebrity.

Amber Heard

ArtistWantCelebrity

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

Sidney Altman

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I love being an example, that, hey, I'm young, I'm a rapper, and the gospel is the power of God for salvation even for me.

Trip Lee

LoveGodPowerMeYoungRapper

I'd never thought of directing as an option for me. I don't know why, because I'm incredibly bossy. I was surprised how collaborative it is. As the producer, you have to get the money and schedule on time, and that's not what I do best.

Trudie Styler

TimeBestMoneyMeThoughtYou

I make a lot of soups and stews at home, and I always have fresh bread with it.

Rita Moreno

HomeBreadAlwaysFreshMakeLot

Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time.

Rodney Brooks

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I personally think that people who are inheriting the wealth must have an agreement on how that wealth will flow from generation to generation, how they would like to spend it, and have similar philosophies around philanthropy to ensure continuity and scaling up.

Roshni Nadar

PeopleThinkGenerationWealthFlow

I look really bad in one of those orange suits with the numbers on the back. It doesn't do anything for me.

Mike Rogers

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