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Rory Stewart Quotes

For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: January 3, 1973

Topics

Democracy Media Citizen Active

When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.

Instincts Just Kids Making Made He

In a Harvard University study, the diets of nearly 1,000 women were analysed before their morning melatonin levels were measured. Meat consumption was the only food significantly associated with lower melatonin production, for reasons that are as yet unknown.

Women Morning Food Unknown Meat

'Singh Is Bliing' came up to me as my dream role.

Me Dream Up Role Came

Unless taught otherwise, children are the most selfish, oblivious little Philistines on the planet. They have no family, no job, no responsibilities, and nothing but time to think about their gluttonous, sticky selves. We should be teaching them to take some focus off of themselves and onto how they can best serve/treat others.

Family Children Time Best Focus Job

It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the right to tax us. We give you the right to lock us up. We give you the right to put us on surveillance, search our homes, whatever and, in exchange, we get a functioning society that keeps us relatively safe, and that's the tradeoff we make.

Society Search You Tax Right Up

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

Feel Become I Feel Like Like I Feel

I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.

Basketball Feel Living Way Only

My existence is fuller of other people's experiences than my own. If they cut open my brain, these are what I would retain most.

People Brain My Own Open Existence

Too many new writers dress up old cliches.

Christopher Fowler

Dress New Old Up Many Cliches

I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.

Music Time Angry Me Guitar Feeling

Fighting was a problem for me in high school.

School Me High School Fighting High

It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island.

Sherwood Schwartz

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