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“If you knew what a sensation of the nearness of a higher power one instinctively feels when one is permitted to contribute to the good of mankind, as I have done, and still do! Believe me, it is a great gift of God's mercy!”
Source : Ernest Albert Spongberg, Jenny Lind (1920). “The life of Jenny Lind, Oct. 6, 1820-Nov. 2, 1887: a compilation from various sources, in commemoration of the centenary of her birth”
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“I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.”
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“Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on? And then you find out that the board members try to run these things as businesses.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.”
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“What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.”
Source : G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.76, Cambridge University Press
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“In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say “Yes†and hand me a chicken leg, or “No†and slap me with an old fish.”
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“I hope you find what you're looking for.”
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“If you've been frugal during your life and tried to save, you're penalised by the tax system. You pay tax on your wages, your savings and even your private pension.”
Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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“When I was a small boy, if we had a problem, we would fight about it with our fists. We wouldn't shoot somebody, killing them or wounding them. That's not hard to do. I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.”