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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality. Ian Mckellen
asked chair class middle mum room teacher william
My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'. Will Poulter
asked common core critical demand education explain modeled questions reminds standards students testing thinking work
Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning. Wendy Kopp
asked asking consider expressed israel maybe might newspapers
There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay. Zubin Mehta
asked competition dad played shot teach tournament
When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125. Yani Tseng
asked
I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it. Colin Baker
asked exists felt movies offered perfect personal several surfing
I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing. Chris Carter
asking bedside good several table
I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table! Emma Watson
asked david fan huge knew might sent
Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him. Elizabeth Wurtzel
doubt good love man similar time wonderful
I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time. Brad Goreski
doubt power-of-love shovels
Never doubt or question the power of love or one woman with a shovel. Carrie Newcomer
doubt want problem
I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine. Carrie Underwood
doubt abuse done
It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it. Antoine Rivarol
doubt scripture butlers
Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it. Bertrand Russell
doubt heads kids move tough
That was a tough one, no doubt about it. Afterwards, I told the kids to just keep their heads up. We have to move on. Ryan Sanchez
doubt increase
We need to increase capacity, there's no doubt about that, David Hawkins
doubt missed three won
We just didn't make the right decisions. We missed two or three point-blank shots. Could we have won the game? No doubt about it. They can be beaten. Joe Bryant
doubt job less minutes older people pushes swagger time within work
Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted. Ray Winstone
expected medical staff
That was as expected by the medical staff - they'll be fine.
expected hear swiss yelling
We could hear the Swiss yelling and stuff. We expected that.
expected game jump
We just didn't have the jump right away. We expected a big game from them because they've been hot. Brenden Morrow
expected played shot
We played outstanding. We shot the way they expected to all year.
expected mainly poem poetry point seen spoken until wisdom word
My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me. Sarah Kay
expected finally fragrance suddenly taken
Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign. Michael Bergin
expected fantastic happy mom push stage strength thankful
I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina. Patricia McBride
expected heart nobody shows
We've got that Gill magic, I guess. Nobody even expected us to be here. To come out and play like we did shows a lot of heart and determination.
expected grabbed stuff thinking three
Most grabbed some stuff thinking we would be back in three days. They never expected this.
games involving theorists
Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players. Yanis Varoufakis
games happen older
As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose. Wayne Rooney
games largest positives record venue
In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities. Viswanathan Anand
game overly policy
The policy doesn't look overly generous, but right now this is the only game in town.
games hope knowing luck mattered points results travel
The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.
game penn people ready state
The Penn State game was crazy. There were like 110,000 people there, and they were ready for it.
games girls gone mentally pat prepared regular saturday winning worked
The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.
game games highly hit nature perfect players social sort storm women
'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar. Nolan Bushnell
game hard lost ncaa tournament
We have a lot to prove. Every game we lost I think we should have won. We need to play hard in the SEC Tournament to make the NCAA Tournament. Joe Crawford
generate love people
I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size. Cheyenne Jackson
generates issue
The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out. Barack Obama
generate
We have to live in the real world and in the real world we generate trash,
generate guidance helps highest potential provides select val
Val IT provides well-researched guidance that helps organizations select investments with the potential to generate the highest returns. Paul Williams
generate metro serious tells tickets visitors
My better sense tells me (that many) stoplight tickets issued to metro Des Moines residents and unsuspecting visitors will generate some discontent, if not serious outrage.
generate hit incredible path relationship space speed within
You can have the most incredible speed ever, but if the path and space relationship are off, you'll hit it all over the place. If you don't have the ingredients to try to generate speed, then you need to play within yourself.
generates good liverpool rubs work
I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party. Rhys Ifans
generate million taxes
We generate $1 million a day in taxes for the state.
generate great pepsi per share
I think Pepsi is in a great situation. Pepsi could get this done at $90 per share now and really generate some shareholder value.
goes life mediation
Yoga is a big part of my life now. There's not a day that goes by where I don't do an Asana and mediation practice. Giancarlo Esposito
goes kids programme seems
Nowadays, kids know how a programme like Merlin is made and how it works. But the show just seems to grow in popularity the more it goes on. Colin Morgan
goes improving overall plan planning saturday start
The overall plan has always been to get there. Luckily, we've been improving and he's doing well. Once we get through Saturday and everything goes well, we'll start planning on from there.
goes realize songs time trust
As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself. David Friedman
goes supposed
We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that. Victoria Osteen
goes love mind takes
Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.
goes records sound
Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense. Ray Charles
goes mean
That would mean a lot. All the hoopla about who's better goes out the window. It's right there on the court. Elton Brand
goes waters
One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit. Rosamund Pike
good homemade
You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo. Yotam Ottolenghi
good open opening
The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night. Yanni
good optimistic scholar sounds
I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
good hard people respect since visiting worked york
I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you. Thierry Henry
good obviously people serious side somber song sure work
I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one. Iggy Azalea
good money music needing
I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous. Ice T
good hours needed nine sound time
I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know? Idina Menzel
good inspired kinds living music pop
I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
good objective primary science truth understanding
Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world. Ivar Giaever
leadership role several taking women
I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization. Gwen Moore
leading war
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause. Ellen Key
leader points
The points leader (Ferris) had nothing for me. Once I got outside, I was gone. Danny Glover
leadership sports trying
There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try. Cathy Rigby
leadership looks hard
It's hard to look at things that are too close.
leader independence promise
I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments. Carl Sagan
leadership college average
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
leadership able motivated
Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.
leader way following
For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.
lost-everything lost ifs
We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope. Cecelia Ahern
lost
I've lost my faith in science. Bette Davis
lost transformed
Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed Antoine Lavoisier
lost
That was the day our sport changed. We lost our personality. Rusty Wallace
lost six weeks
We've lost probably six weeks to the weather. E. P. Thompson
lost
We've lost everything, ... I don't know what we're going to do. I never wanted to leave. Fats Domino
lost people
Most of the people we see have lost a lot their home, their job, their friends and family.
lost match three
Meri is Meri. She hasn't lost a match in three years.
lost
We just couldn't score. The touchdown we lost really hurt.
third
I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible. Brittany Howard
third
use the third person -- 'they' and 'he' -- and you know who I mean. George H. W. Bush
third weight
I thought I was in better shape. He had so much weight to cut. I thought that if I got him into the third period, I could get him.
third time
We really want the Games, this is our third time trying. Sebastian Coe
third
If it were the old way there would have been another four-spot in that third inning. John Smoltz
third
He was a difference-maker in the third period. Marc Crawford
third
He can play first, second, third or the outfield.
thirds ifs
If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about. Brandon Jacobs
third
I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws. Charles Nelson Reilly
tough
That was a tough one for them to lose. Bob Lutz
tough
That was a tough decision, but I think I would have done the same thing.
tough ups worked
That was a tough day. We had ups and downs, but we worked it out.
tough work
We have a lot of work to do when we go back home. It's a tough loss, but it's not the end of the season. Phillip Fulmer
tough
We need to regroup. It's been a tough road. Tommy Lee
tough
I think it would be very tough for him to come back in an Oriole uniform.
tough
I thought I was in the right position. It was a tough call. LeBron James
tough understanding wants year
We've talked, and we've come to the understanding that he wants more from me. It's been a tough year on all of us.
tough
We made him take a lot of tough shots. Flip Saunders
winning games long
As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good. CC Sabathia
wine water destruction
Away with you, water, destruction of wine! Catullus
winning firsts born
To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life. Cecil Rhodes
wind caution carrie
Throw caution to the wind and just do it.
winter science nuclear
If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.
wine science night
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as 'night walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.' But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. And it has the additional and important virtue-to whatever extent the word has any meaning-of being true.
wind beats tense
It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back. Bethenny Frankel
winning missing done
I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.
wine mean white
Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.