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Roger Bannister Quotes

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

Roger Bannister

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: british
Birth: March 23, 1929

Topics

Work Education Mother Science Poor

If you don't love it, don't touch it.

Jenifer Lewis

Love You Touch

I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to.

Michael Connelly

Job Me Law Law Enforcement Everyday

I didn't have the opportunity to go to college. I was busy touring since the age of 17.

Tommy Lee

Age Opportunity College Busy Go

I'm not a good interviewer.

Judy Sheindlin

Good Interviewer

Working in MTV's development team, my days would consist of pitches and deciding which concepts we wanted to buy. We would then develop those into a pilot. Very few ended up making it to a full series, but if they did, I would manage the project alongside the show's creators.

Julia Hartz

Team Pilot Development Project Days

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

Jason Statham

Walk People You Street Bored Get

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Chris Van Hollen

Education Obstacles Higher Education

I'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life.

Woody Herman

Life Road Rest My Life Going

When we talk about LGBT characters on TV we're talking about the entire rainbow, and that includes trans people, and that includes non-binary people, people of color, women, differently-abled people. There is so much opportunity for storytelling there, and I hope that we continue to see more of that.

Wilson Cruz

Women Opportunity Hope Rainbow Color

The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.

Winnie Byanyima

Women Environmental World Problems

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

William Griffith Wilson

Faith Desire Way Convince Only

In 1996, Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in the State of the Union address.

Nina Easton

Government Over Big Union Era State