Ellen Wilkinson Quotes
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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It's appropriate for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time.
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There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
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The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.
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To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.
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Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
