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Arabella Weir Quotes

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: british
Birth: December 6, 1957

Topics

Life Father Whom Fact Expected Were

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'

Robert M. Gates

History War People Go Way Talk

I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.

Day Know Three Want More Two

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

Fun People Me Song Will Way

If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.

City Data You Ten Years Look Lost

I'm just a kid from El Paso, Texas.

Texas Kid Just El Paso

When I first started in the industry back home in Australia at 18, there was a lot of push and shove as to how I should dress, if I was allowed to cut my hair short, if I had too many tattoos. If I didn't get a campaign, or if I didn't get a role, they would always come back to, 'Well, she dresses like a boy.'

Home Dress Hair Short Push Back

People sometimes ask me to name the greatest coach in NFL history. George Halas may have set the standard, but Don Shula has won more games than anyone, and he has done it in the most competitive era. He had an incomparable ability to evaluate players, to motivate them, and to teach them the game of football.

History Football People Me Game

The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes.

Loved Sometimes Take Us Controversy

I don't want to ever minimize the danger of working in a mine.

Want Danger Working Mine Minimize

I have one favourite song, and that's 'Aayat' from 'Bajirao Mastani.'

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Thomas Jefferson

Best Little Who Knows He How

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

Hope Ideas Wind Moving World Values

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