Wonderful Quotes - Page 38

• I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.

  Tom Conti

  Father, Nina, Known

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• My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.

  Vince Cable

  Vegetables, Shopping, Wife

  "What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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• Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.

  Anthony Doerr

  Writing, Joy, Challenges

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

  Jamie Dimon

  Years, Together, Unraveling

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• Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

  Paula Deen

  Long, Cooking, Grit

  Paula Deen (2011). “Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible: The New Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes with More Than 300 Recipes”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.

  Tony Dungy

  Decision, Coaching, Forget

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• I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

  John Ensign

  Senate, Wonderful Experience

  "From senators to animals: Lawmaker who fell from grace now working as a vet" By Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2012.

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• I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Book, Becoming, Difficult

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• It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

  Michelle Forbes

  Jobs, Children, Long

  "Q&A – Michelle Forbes (Mitch Larsen)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

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• When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

  Justin Bartha

  Talking, Form, Theater

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.

  Elton Gallegly

  Two, People, President

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• This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running, Challenges, Looks

  Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2002.

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• It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

  Joan Allen

  People, Laughing, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Growing Up, Thinking, Knowing

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• People say to me, Oh, it's so wonderful that you're writing about real things, and that it's a political thing to do, and I say, look-to be in my position and not say anything is a hell of a political thing. You need to think politically, otherwise you'll be one of these people who says, Oh, this person's saying this and that person's saying that, and I'm confused. And I say, yeah, because you want to be confused.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, Confused, Writing

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• Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

  Franz Kafka

  Sweet, Writing, Rewards

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• When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Failure, Science, Light

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• Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Powerful, Code Quality, Bells

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1976). “A Discipline of Programming”, Prentice Hall

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• I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.

  David Chalmers

  Lying, Years, Ideas

  "David Chalmers on the Big Conundrum: Consciousness". Interview with Natasha Mitchel, www.abc.net.au. August 10, 2003.

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• The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.

  James Chanos

  Numbers, Chinese, Growth

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• I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it.

  Mary Crosby

  Careers, Missing, Dallas

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• We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

  Roger Daltrey

  Community, Shepherds, Rich

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• I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

  Maureen Forrester

  Years, Childhood, Year One

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• Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

  Maureen Forrester

  Spiritual, Gone, Mahler

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• In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Taken, Agriculture, People

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