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school hard-work church
Alan Paton But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
school age taught
Alan Moore I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.
school opportunity thinking
Alan Moore I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
school ideas forgotten
Alan Bennett I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
school boys oxford
Alan Bennett My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
school care students
Alan Ball I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
school exercise keys
Alan Alda Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
school thinking lasts
Alan Alda When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
race cells organization
Alan Watts If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!
race faces smile-on-my-face
Alan Jay Lerner There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.
race conversation made
Alan Ayckbourn As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
race people
Alain Robert I love all people, whatever race they are.
race balloons curtains
Al McGuire That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
race soul done
Chris Chocola Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system - it's created the highest standard of living.
race ideas america
Chip Kidd Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.
race knows
Chief Joseph I know that my race must change.
race racism waiting
Chief Joseph The Indian race are waiting and praying.
government people should
Alan Moore People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
government giving enemy
Alan Green In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.
government favors corruption
Alan Greenspan In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
government purpose regulators
Alan Greenspan The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
government support political
Alan Greenspan Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.
government self credit
Alan Greenspan We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
government giving needs
Al Sharpton We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
government america united-states
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.
government opportunity work
Andy Troszok We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.