Lucy Powell Quotes

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising.

Lucy Powell

Quotes to Explore

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
- Work
- Real
- Done
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Jackie Robinson
- People
- Respect
- Honesty
To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.

Halima Aden
- World
- Work
- Home
I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

Fiona Shaw
- Time
- Good
- America
I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.

Walter Dean Myers
- People
- Book
- Bad
It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

Imogen Cunningham
- People
- Silly
- Alive