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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
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
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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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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
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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
buying forty million revolving starting
I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery. Gianni Agnelli
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As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer. Virginia Postrel
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The only reason we are talking about this (wheel tax) is to get a vote (for the EMS budget), and I have a real problem with that. The feeling I'm getting here tonight is that I'm buying (Williams') vote so that he'll get the Capital Improvement Plan in gear for 2005. Gary Meyer
buyers pilots plane tomorrow
The pilots of tomorrow are the plane buyers of tomorrow. Phil Boyer
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The PC is much more of a mature product than it's ever been before, so it's much subject to the vagaries of the overall economy, ... When the economy slows and people retrench, they don't buy durable goods, and the PC is a big durable now.
buying fed pet rats saving snake
I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something. Nikki Reed
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That was his big thing. He did that several times. He was extremely generous. He was always buying things, just doing whatever he could. He used his own money. He liked helping the kids because he didn't have any kids of his own. He was very good to the girls.
buying japan precisely russian
That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.
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We have a negative outlook on the telecom-services sector, preferring smaller, rural providers and one in Canada that, in our view, have stable margins and are paying out dividends and buying back stock.
expect expressed foreign marshall pleasantly policy surprised
And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.
expect terrible time
I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.
expect pavement planners underneath vehicles
The pavement underneath the asphalt is crumbling. The drainage wasn't that particularly good. The planners back in the 1960's expect only 150,000 vehicles a day.
expect past pitching three weeks
The past two or three weeks we've pitched it the way I thought we would from the get-go. This is also the kind of pitching I expect from Mitre. Mike Quade
expectations people trying
People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby. Bill Bruford
expectations speech
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. Bill Bradley
expecting hope kicks percent profit small year
The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.
expects favorite nobody player position
The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit.
expecting launch spike
The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,
impossible language needed
It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed. Antoine Lavoisier
impossible
That (will be) an impossible task, I'll tell you right now.
impossible stay trying
We're still trying to stay under the radar. It's impossible right now.
impossible somebody unlucky
I thought it would be impossible for somebody to get that unlucky again. So much went wrong; they had everything but locusts.
impossible wanted
What I really wanted was the impossible. Becca Fitzpatrick
impossible daydreaming easy
Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy. B. J. Novak
impossible life relationship shift sudden work
I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my life and my relationship to my work, and it didn't feel it was impossible to make a film like that. Chiwetel Ejiofor
impossible issue ongoing proved
ongoing issue which has proved impossible to resolve.
impossible travel
I wouldn't have travel plans. If this thing pans out, it may be practically impossible to go anywhere. Mike Evans
people
Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country. Yahya Jammeh
people willing
In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs. Yossi Vardi
people skeptical sudden telling wrist
Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself. Yancy Butler
people
I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
people
People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
people
I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
people trying
I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve. Irwin Rose
people tendency
Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.
people
When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else. Imani Hakim
public stopped though
We've kind of been out of the public eye, even though we haven't stopped working. Emma Bunton
public putting
We are not putting anything out that is not public record.
public regular reporters
Those are the things that reporters do for the public on a regular basis.
public rather view
If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.
public somebody
He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like. Pat Gillick
public service
Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation, Charles Ray
publicity surprised whether
He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.
public support
We've been very public in our support of this.
public
If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services. Robert Lopez