Caroline Pratt Quotes

A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Think
  • Act
  • Tyranny

• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Gratitude
  • Big
  • Manners

• When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Rain

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Culture
  • Question

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I get homesick.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Get
  • Homesick

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • America
  • Eyes

• I'm an honest, open father.

  

  T.I.
  • Father
  • Honest
  • Open

• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
  • Place
  • Obsessed

• An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Money

• I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Sky
  • Stars

• War is the ultimate tool of politics.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • War
  • Politics
  • Tool

• Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Things

• I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Design
  • Start

• If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Life
  • Women
  • Education

• Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Power

• I'm lucky because the most dangerous thing that could happen to me is that someone will say something mean on a computer screen miles away, and so I feel like if that's all that I'm facing, then why would I not use my platform to talk about things?

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Why

• Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Music

• The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.

  

  Nina Blackwood
  • Music
  • Video
  • Heyday

• I have the softest beard in the world. As far as growing it, it doesn't itch, and it's so non-intrusive. But, I am so sick of hair on my face and on my head. Because I'm not a really hairy guy, I'm not really used to it.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • World
  • Guy
  • Growing

• A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.

  

  Caroline Pratt
  • World
  • Learning
  • Lifetime