Anita Rani
British broadcaster and journalist
I am a pretty good dog mum.
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That my work has given deaf children more confidence in themselves and a sense of ownership of who they are.
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Shirley Manson
Scottish singer and songwriter; lead vocalist of Garbage
My dog’s trust in me.
Richard Feynman
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there was. The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.
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Excerpt from “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1985
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In the Pet Shop Boys song Being Boring they’ve a great line that says “I never dreamed that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be”. And I feel I am, so that’s great.
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If emergency train announcements were written up on the information screen. The times I ended up at the wrong destination could easily have been avoided.
You have to ride the wave and never wait for it to be calm, because it never will be.
Dolly Parton. I love how she does what she wants, and lives how she wants, keeping her life so private. Also, she helped fund Covid vaccine research.
“I’ll tell you later.” They never do.
I didn’t email my grandfather enough before he passed away.
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