Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley Quotes

I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

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• I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.

  

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• A film has its own life and takes its own time.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
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• Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

  

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• It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

  

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• I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.

  

  Daisy Ridley
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• There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

  

  Wangari Maathai
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• One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
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• In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

  

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• It is possible to have a public education system that works.

  

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• I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

  

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• We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

  

  Arthur Capper
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• When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.

  

  Charlie Crist
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• Since I started CrossFit, I've read and heard about the critics talk about how unsafe it is, and my only response to that is any form of exercise can be unsafe if you don't have the proper coaching, education and guidance.

  

  Bob Harper
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• To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

  

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• I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

  

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• Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.

  

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• Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.

  

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• You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.

  

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• The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

  

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• I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.

  

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• I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'

  

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• I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.

  

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
  • Education
  • Film
  • Reversed