Tony Benn Quotes

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.

Tony Benn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 3, 1925 - March 14, 2014

Topics

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We should always be trying to tear down the walls and say, 'I'm no different than you.'

Jim James

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Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.

Jennifer Armentrout

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I've certainly felt alone a lot of my life.

Andrew Haigh

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I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

Maya Beiser

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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

Maurice Blanchot

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My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? What's your schedule like?' I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, 'How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,' I'd try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps.

Jeff MacNelly

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One of the things that I just kind of became very enthusiastic about, and wanted to learn more about it, is how God saves.

Trip Lee

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I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

Roberta Flack

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A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

Jonathan Sacks

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I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

Jonah Lehrer

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Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.

Clotilde Hesme

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It's emotional for artists who are women and people of color to have less value placed on our worldview.

Ava DuVernay

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