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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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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
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Unfortunately, it is highly probable that a weapon went astray and hit civilian buildings, Javier Solana
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I would lose my way again, be led hopelessly astray again, just so I can pray again...For the mercy in you. Depeche Mode
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I pretty much believe, as everyone in the B Team does, that business must succeed beyond the bottom line. More important than profits is how you get to them. Measuring financial earnings and losses only is definitely not enough and has led us astray from creating a better world for all. Guilherme Leal
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First Democracy,' ... is about the ideas that guided the Athenians in their efforts to build toward a perfect democracy. Without a firm grasp of these ideas, we will not understand democracy. And unless we understand democracy, we will be led astray by its doubles.
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I beg pardon from those I might have led astray or hurt. Please remember me kindly. Pope John
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Our eyes only tell us part of what we need to be able to see. The other part is done by the brain, taking the input from the eyes and making guesses or inferences about what's out there in the environment. Usually these inferences are very accurate, but sometimes they lead us astray in the form of visual illusions.
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To behold the wandering moon, / Riding near her highest noon, / Like one that had been led astray / Through the heav'n's wide pathless way; / And oft, as if her head she bowed, / Stooping through a fleecy cloud. John Milton
astray far mainstream people wrong
How so many people went so far astray from the mainstream and were wrong is probably unprecedented,
astray both company core led supporting
In both cases, IT should be supporting the core competency of that organization. That is the point. We're led astray sometimes because we think core competencies should be similar, and they're not. They're very different company to company.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters. Idina Menzel
tend work
I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.
tend
All actors tend to be the same messed-up people. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
tend vocal
The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more. Colin Mochrie
tends
Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.
tendency
We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.
tendencies aggression clear
The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear. B. F. Skinner
tendency whether
We made it interesting. That's what we have a tendency to do, whether we need to or not.
tennis watching
I won't be watching the women's final, that's for sure. I'm not into women's tennis any more. Lleyton Hewitt