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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#criticism #defense #except #obscurity #their

My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be. ↗

— Naima Adedapo

#confidence #consistent #deserve #first #first impression

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#checking #each #indeed #longer #means

I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon. ↗

— Adele

#child #delighted #direct #expecting #first

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me. ↗

— Adele

#around #definitely #down #even #family

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. ↗

— Renata Adler

#clearly #community #consensus #defines #life

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

#conciliating #devoured #infallible #method #oneself

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

#calves #choose #only #own #stupidest

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for. ↗

— Kate Adie

#being #being used #first #freedom #gulf

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize. ↗

— Kate Adie

#am #fiction #had #i #i am