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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
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
asked carry police required
The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings. Debasish Sen
npr stubborn
Yeah. But I won't do it. I'm a stubborn NPR guy. David Rosen
npr listening sometimes
When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR. Mikhail Baryshnikov
npr broke programming
Ive enjoyed programming on NPR, but were broke and therefore all spending must be reduced. Jaime Herrera Beutler
npr yesterday looks
I was on NPR's All Things Considered yesterday. The question was, 'You're on the torture rack, they're going to kill you, who are you going to vote for? Mitt Romney, or Barack Obama? I said, 'Look, I've climbed Mount Everest. I know how to do what it takes. Take this to the bank: I would rather die.' Gary Johnson
npr track theme
Im also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show. George Duke
npr politics radio
Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR. Paul Weyrich
operating paper piece
We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.
operating point result slightly
From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.
operating point reward risk taxpayers
From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.
operating rate regular resume slow work
We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.
operating purpose time turn
What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.
operating-systems programmers defined
To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API. Charles Petzold
operating
At the operating level, I think it's very possible.
operating red
At this point, we're in the red $20,000 and that's going to have to come out of our operating budget.
operating time
At this time of year, we're usually operating at 90 percent.
race earth praying
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. C. S. Lewis
race achievement silence
Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.
race rats innocence
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent! Bette Davis
race done winner
If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner. Bill Bowerman
race may ends
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Bertrand Russell
race traveller
European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.
race humans ifs
How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
race belief divine
Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.
race turned
We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.
reporter today
Today is really all about Lane. I told a reporter today he has been like my brother. Phil Hare
reporters humorists
But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter. David Sedaris
reporters reporting stand
We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.
reporters
If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped. Robert Redford
reporters word
Reporters should keep their word to their sources. Floyd Abrams
reporters
I never knew what a reporter looked like. Dwayne Andreas
reporters seen
We see reporters that we have never seen before,
reporters sports worked
The sports reporters got everything all worked up.
reporter wants york
Because I had become part of the story. I had actually become part of the news, and that's something no New York Times reporter wants to do. Judith Miller