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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings. Debasish Sen
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As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also. Wynton Marsalis
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I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers. Ravi Zacharias
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validate the purpose of a rule in the modern context or eliminate it. It's as simple as that.
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I felt that the IRA, in the context of Irish history, and Sinn Fein were a legitimate force that had to be recognized, and you wouldn't have peace without them.
context felt opportunity vein
I thought it was an opportunity to go for it all. I never thought in any vein or any context that it was too big. I never felt that. Never sensed that. But I did know that I had nothing to lose. Bill Callahan
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Malloway's statements were made in the context of formal police interviews. She understood she had an obligation to be truthful. The fact she was willing to take a polygraph test supports her reliability. Peter Wilson
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We do want teachers to express their opinions, but to put that in context and to provide opposing points of view. All discussion must be fair and balanced.
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We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else can only follow a context, without recognizing the context as such. Herein lies the source of creativity and the genuinely new.
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On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse. Samantha Power
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I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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The outsiders might second-guess this, but we didn't quit. Until the very end, we gave it all out there. Give the Panthers credit. They played well. We didn't, but it wasn't lack of effort. Keith Brooking
gave girls interested school
I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon. Beeban Kidron
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I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them. Bill Hader
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I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player. David Crosby
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God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it. Rick Warren
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That was a tough one. (Montoursville) just took over the net. When they won the second set (7-5) I think it gave them a boost.
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That was the key of the game. It gave us a big lift.
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That was a key play. That gave us a big lift and some momentum going into halftime. We needed to keep them out of the end zone.
perhaps
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
perhaps periods
When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.' Wentworth Miller
perhaps technology
The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology. Pico Iyer
perhaps
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. Raymond Queneau
perhaps seven sleep three
I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days, Todd Hamilton
perhaps
I think perhaps it is a generational thing, Orhan Pamuk
perhaps
I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people. Claire Tomalin
perhaps written
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
perhaps studied
You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is. Azim Premji
whom
To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required. Andrew Young
whom
I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.
whom
I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for. Sam Worthington
whom
I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.
whom
I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand. Tom Lehrer
whom
The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.
whom
Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are
whom
I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives. Jane Byrne
whom
I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?' Azzedine Alaia