P. J. Harvey Quotes

As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

P. J. Harvey

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Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'

Joan Jett

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My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.

John Cameron

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I get into lab early and leave a bit early, too. So I like to have an hour or two before everybody comes in.

John Gurdon

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A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.

Meir Soloveichik

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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

Stephen Fry

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I was a tomboy, always fairly eccentric, and convinced I'd grow up to be an actress.

Sonia Rykiel

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Sometimes we feel like we're only interacting with what's already happening; we don't actually affect anything - sometimes I feel like that, anyway.

Shura

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If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views.

Robert Casey

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President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: 'I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don't play by the rules.'

Ron Wyden

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I make fractals. They're like mathematical pictures. My stepdad is actually a rocket scientist, so in his free time, he gave me a fractal program for fun. He showed me how to use it when I was about nine or 10, and I made thousands of fractals.

Ronda Rousey

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A lot of people, most people who are working, they do it for money. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. It so happens that I made a lot of money already, so I don't have to worry that much about it. I wouldn't fault anybody for doing it for the money, but it doesn't interest me right now.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.

Colin Firth

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