Benjamin Barber Quotes

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

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• I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• I don't feel closeted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Feel

• The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Poor
  • Investment
  • Data

• As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Why
  • Help
  • Political

• I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Like
  • Feels

• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Eyes
  • Daily
  • Sky

• By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Life
  • Done
  • May

• Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• I'm good where I am at this moment.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Good
  • Moments

• The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Life
  • God
  • Lie

• It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Moral
  • Compromised

• It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Live
  • Sleep

• Maliki saw Islamic State as a way to exert pressure. If I am not re-elected, terror will befall you - that was his message.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Islamic
  • Terror

• Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Change
  • Disappointment
  • Cushions

• I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.

  

  C.P. Snow
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Purpose

• I want to tell every fan that I appreciate them with a retweet or reply but I don't want my account to lose my own tweets. I don't my fans to have to go through a bunch of replies to get to my own tweets right? In the big picture though I do read all of the tweets and I appreciate all of my followers and my fans.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Want
  • Picture
  • Fans

• Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.

  

  Mickey Rooney
  • Stories
  • Sentence
  • Happily

• For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Friends
  • Prove
  • Contrary

• The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Dream
  • Remembers

• Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

  

  Benjamin Barber
  • Prove
  • Schools
  • Jail