P. J. Harvey Quotes

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

P. J. Harvey

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It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

Jennifer Armintrout

DeathImpossiblePersonalQuestion

Barack Obama has been the architect of policies that have hurt our country domestically as well as foreign.

Robert Pittenger

HurtCountryWellBeenBarack Obama

When I was a kid, I wanted to be That Girl. I even wrote a spec script for it and sent it to Sam Denoff.

Jeffrey Klarik

GirlKidEvenWantedSamWrote

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

Jean Piaget

KnowledgeWordsWorldSelfContact

Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say 'screw this.' They hate the products.

Tony Fadell

HateStoryYouSmokeWallPerson

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

Tom Stoppard

ThinkYouTelevisionYoungNowOver

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

Rita Dove

ScienceSchoolHigh SchoolThink

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

Rufus Sewell

ReadingOutThroughSitGotModel

Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.

Martina Hingis

WinYouGoWantTournamentAny

She didn't leave any written instructions. She has verbally expressed her wishes to me and other people.

Michael Schiavo

PeopleMeWishesSheLeaveHer

For American foreign aid to become more effective, it must embrace the power of partnerships, access the transformative nature of free enterprise, and leverage the abundant resources that can come from the private sector.

Mitt Romney

NaturePowerFreePartnershipsMore

I always take pride in the fact that nobody can mess with me, and I never let anybody mess with me my entire life.

Dean Ambrose

LifeMePrideNobodyNeverMess

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