Tony Benn Quotes

I've had a very full life, and I've enjoyed it very much. I've learned a great deal and feel indebted to all the people who have worked so hard.

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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I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.

Joe Sacco

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I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.

John Cameron Mitchell

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Too many children and adults go hungry every day.

Andrew Zimmern

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At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

Steven Rodney McQueen

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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Tony Benn

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When I heard Martin Luther King's speech, 'I Have a Dream,' I reflected on the fact that much of the success of that movement was driven by the unity of the church.

Tony Evans

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My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.

Mary Gordon

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When you're an outsider, you don't have loyalties to anyone, so you can be cruelly honest if need be. The more you get inside, the more you are involved in polite networks of professional coercion that make people less honest.

Molly Crabapple

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Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I've got a EC3-35 Gibson, which is pretty cherished. I've got a vintage Reichenbacker 330 in fireglow, which is the other one I look after and don't let the kids touch.

Bradley Wiggins

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For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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