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asked constitution giggle illegal lobby mandela mentioned might nelson warned
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
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
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. Carrie Underwood
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. Bergen Evans
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.
leader greek done
Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ...
opposition puck rules stop tough
With the new rules, if you've got the puck with some speed, it's tough for the opposition to stop you.
opposition
Illuminate the opposition. Adam Weishaupt
opposition quebec saying
I went around Quebec saying the same thing I just said to you, and I see no opposition at all, Gilles Duceppe
opposition manly
Opposition strengthens the manly will. Amos Bronson Alcott
opposition people
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
opposition people run supportive
We've not run into very much opposition at all. Most people have been very supportive of the project.
opposition stiff
The opposition is very stiff but I am optimistic.
opposition party regions view
We view the Party of Regions as an opposition party. Yulia Tymoshenko
opposition repetition report
The report is just a repetition of the allegations of opposition politicians, and I don't see very much research.
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
running
I have no intention of running for office again. George Allen
running war long
Total war is the most humane in the long run. C. S. Lewis
running horse want
We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.
running fuel machines
Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.
running reality machines
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.
running loneliness long
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
running doubt narnia
Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.
running women writing
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air. Catullus
running writing air
What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
terms
We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.
terms waiting
We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.
terms
On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure. Hamdi Ulukaya
terms
We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.
terms thinks
Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me. Hallie Ephron
terms view
I don't view it in the terms of a comeback, Jay Farrar
terms
I don't think of this in terms of winning,
term
I always think long term about anything. That's why I have never sold anything that I've ever purchased. And I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime. Donald Sterling
terminal
Death is very, very terminal. David Lange
unless
Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough. Mark Zuckerberg
unless
I think it's going to be great. Unless there's a blizzard.
unless
I think it's discounted, unless they do something and do something decisive.
unless
He wasn't going to give it up willingly. He didn't want to give it up unless he had to.
unless work
I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell. Armand Assante
unless
I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view. Gore Vidal
unless
I don't curse when I talk. Unless I'm mad. Ciara
unless
We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. Ken Hitchcock
unless
Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace. Jacques Rogge