"Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating."

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Thora Hird

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“Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.”
“Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise. The choice is his responsibility, and his alone. There is no automatism that will carry him upward without choice or effort and there is no trend solely in the right direction. Evolution has no purpose; man must supply this for himself. The means to gaining right ends involve both organic evolution and human evolution, but human choice as to what are the right ends must be based on human evolution.”

Source : George Gaylord Simpson (1967). “The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man”, p.311, Yale University Press
“What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.”
“I presume that each country will have a different response to each joke. But mostly what I've seen is that everyone has the same response. The line about: "He hasn't had this much fun since they burned all those kids at Waco..." I thought that might get a real.... it does in America, it gets a shock, as if they fall back in their seats, but then they still laugh.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Most restaurants fail. The sad ones are stillborn. The mad ones flourish within the bustle and excitement of fame, notoriety, the thrill of the new. But they rarely sustain the glow. They are balloons kept aloft by a restless crowd. Only the strange, the freaks of restaurant perfection, can sustain life beyond a few years.”
“I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.”

Source : "Gigi Hadid Hates the Gym, Loves Carbs, and Just Got Her First Fitness Campaign". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. October 4, 2016.
“After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.”

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