Melvyn Bragg Quotes

I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am.

Melvyn Bragg

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CommunityI AmParentsStrongNow

The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.

John Engler

EducationSchoolChildParentMore

It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.

Andrew Weil

LifeFamilyHealthFoodBeginning

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

John Mayer

HappinessAgeYourselfHappyYou

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

Jean Reno

LifePeopleFriendsSayRealOnly

Buffett gave significant portions of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett made money for 50 years before he donated.

Shiv Nadar

MoneyFoundationWealthYearsMade

Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture.

Judith Butler

RevolutionLateMilitaryMovement

Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.

Douglas Coupland

NaturePeopleIdeasFashionThink

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Christopher Morley

ManTrainingLearnYouWayFirst

Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

SchoolParentsPictureGoPlansKid

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

Brandi Chastain

I CanCountrySayProgressiveJapan

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

Anson Mount

FeelEnemyNeedI FeelExposition

Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.

Alice Oswald

WindColdInformationKindMovement

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