"If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are."

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Source : "Carol Vorderman: I'm single for the first time in my life - and I really like it!" by Julie McCaffrey, www.mirror.co.uk. September 28, 2011.

Carol Vorderman

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“Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.”

Source : Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.23, Penguin
“Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.”
“My 21st birthday was awesome. I was in L.A., and it was great. I had a bunch of friends that came out. The night ended up in a completely different direction than we thought it was going to go.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". german.imdb.com.
“The enemy is always in the mind.”
“My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.”
“The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.”
“We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.”
“You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life; no one can take that away.”

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