Andrea McLean Quotes

I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.

Andrea McLean

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ChildrenMoneySugarUpEstateIdea

Clearly, any well-kept garden will be a source of pleasure in the summer months; in the bleak urban midwinter, however, there are few activities more likely to energise the spirit than a botanical walk.

John Burnside

WalkGardenSummerWillSpiritMore

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.

Steve Irwin

LearningBetterGetting BetterGoAm

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

Mohsin Hamid

GreatInterestingYouPlaceKnow

As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.

Jason Calacanis

RelationshipYouDirectPublisher

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

Diane Abbott

TruthGovernmentTruth IsHonest

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

Chris Stapleton

CreativeTalentProcessLies

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

William Hung

GoodTimeTalentPeopleLaughIdiot

I grew up in a country that was in a civil conflict for most of my childhood and adolescence. I saw violence and lived as a teenager through the time of a brutal dictator called Idi Amin. I fled and became a refugee.

Winnie Byanyima

TimeChildhoodConflictViolenceUp

Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

Todd Young

ResponsibilityMoneyCompassionName

I live on an island, and it's difficult to find.

Rick Ross

LiveFindIslandDifficult

When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.

Richard Phillips

GreatArtThinkMomentsYouAlways

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

Maria Mitchell

LookingMy OwnOverOutOwnSaw

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