Nicholas Lea (Nicholas Christopher Herbert) Quotes
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
Malorie Blackman
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Barbra Streisand
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Warren Bennis
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
Lamar Alexander
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As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
Maeve Binchy
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Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
Damien Hirst
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
D. H. Lawrence
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
Oded Fehr
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
Barbara Cartland
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
Gabriela Sabatini
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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
Dalai Lama
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Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.
Laura Chinchilla
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I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.
Sam Riley
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I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.
Frances McDormand
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If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere.
Blake Lively
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I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.
Esperanza Spalding
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
Quintilian
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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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I'm not a big comedy show-watcher, but I love Ricky Gervais' stuff and Sacha Baron Cohen's things. But I'm not an expert on them. I've seen them once.
Chris Lilley
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Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.
Nicholas Lea