More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal.
Melvyn Bragg
Recitation: by Male by Female
There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
Michael Ian Black
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The first album I bought was the Spice Girls, ha ha.
Rita Ora
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Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.
Mary Tyler Moore
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Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers in their selfish pursuit of re-election.
Mike Barnicle
WorkWorldSmallSelfishCreate
I think comparisons are very on the surface. If I sing, like, 'Park Bench People,' and there's kind of a social undertone, people will say I sound like Gil Scott-Heron. But for me, the more insightful comparison would be a Roberta Flack or Nina Simone - people who really mix different genres of music.
Jose James
MusicPeopleMeThinkSayKind
If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it.
Donald Dunn
GoodSongEasyYouBadPlay
If you ask the right questions, you learn a lot about people.
Chirlane McCray
PeopleLearnQuestionsYouRight
In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
Alice Walker
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Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Woodrow Wilson
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If inflation is brought down, interest rates will fall. Once rates fall, we have the opportunity to maybe achieve the goal of 'housing for all' faster; take roads, infrastructure to India's interiors.
Piyush Goyal
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
LearningGoodFutureWisdomPower
I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you're doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes.
Poo Bear
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