Benjamin Barber Quotes
The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.
Benjamin Barber
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
Kacey Musgraves
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
Xun Kuang
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
Ian Somerhalder
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To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
Martha Graham
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I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).
Charles Clarke
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'Macbeth' is an amazing story.
Andy Serkis
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Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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I have been told many times that when I win I make my people proud to be Australian. I am Aboriginal, I am one of them and every time I win or am honoured like this it should be an example to Aboriginal people who may think they have nowhere to go but down. But more importantly I am an Australian and I would like to make all Australians feel proud to be Australian. Ours is a truly multicultural society and should be united as such. I would like to believe that my successes are celebrated by all Australians, bringing our nation together.
Cathy Freeman
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The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.
Benjamin Barber
