Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley Quotes
In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.
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Love is more than one thing.
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.
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People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
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We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
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The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
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I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
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The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.
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Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.
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When you're in your twenties, you're made of expectations, and when they're shattered, you don't know how to behave. The fact is if you react really outraged, you fear that you'll get dropped and feel even more terrible. But there's only a certain amount you can put up with before you become obnoxious in your own eyes, right?
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As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
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In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.
