Heather Brooke Quotes
When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law.
Heather Brooke
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
Camilo Jose Cela
Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
Gay Talese
I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
Nancy A. Collins
What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.
Madeleine L'Engle
Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.
Brian Chesky
People started coining the phrase, 'Bubba Golf,' whatever you want to call it, which I like. 'Bubba Golf' is going to be fun. I mean, why do what everybody else does? That's boring.
Bubba Watson
Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody.
Lauren Mayberry
Chvrches
One musical that deeply influenced me - and continues to do so - is the 1997 ABC TV movie of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella,' starring Brandy, with Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother and Whoopi Goldberg as the prince's mom.
Janet Mock
What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome toward one that we would desire?
David Grinspoon
I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off.
Shakira
Seeing me in love is a constant state: there are no questions, as the answer is simply there.
Shakira
I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.
Elle Macpherson
I'll tell you this - No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
Jim Morrison
The Doors
The problem with technology, as with fashion, is that it's impossible to be 'in' forever.
Alexandra Petri
Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works.
Freddie Wong
The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters; they are also misologists - haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is little more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide. And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, of cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations.
Martin Amis
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them.
Alfred Kinsey
When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law.
Heather Brooke