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.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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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take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer.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.
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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.
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Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.
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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.
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Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody.
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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?
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Seeing me in love is a constant state: there are no questions, as the answer is simply there.
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I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.
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Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.
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I've been looking for a versatile and writer-driven home that could help me bring more complex, exciting, and potentially murderous characters to television - and the team at Skydance is the ideal partner for that.
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When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass. We need to have all kinds of characters represented.
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I'd dreamed of being in the food business from the moment my globetrotting parents introduced me to the foods of the world during childhood trips to Europe and Asia.
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I wake up every morning feeling like I have the best life.
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This is a crucial meeting for the future of the European Union.
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Until we Dream of Life and Life becomes a Dream.
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It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.
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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.
