Lucy Powell Quotes
The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I like things simple.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.
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Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.
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Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.
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There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.
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The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
