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Annie Besant Quotes

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: english
Birth: October 1, 1847 - September 20, 1933

Topics

Life Home Freedom Purpose Back Own

I figure it's a European thing to eat cheese and crackers before a meal - that's my afternoon snack, or I do it before dinner.

Dinner Cheese Snack Eat Meal Figure

When I wrote my cookbook, 'I Love Crab Cakes,' I asked some of my best chef buddies to contribute recipes.

Love Best Chef Crab Recipes Buddies

I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Politics Cool World Think America

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

Michelle Pfeiffer

People Me You Matter Nest Hard

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

Work Good Great Performance Better

With less and less television being watched live, consumers are enjoying the freedom to record at home or in the cloud, watch locally or on the go, and binge watch entire series that they never had the time to enjoy.

Home Live Freedom Time Cloud Enjoy

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Myself Past Looking Look Ahead Try

Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain.

Identity Brain Think Human Brain

You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don't stick them out anymore.

Christoph Waltz

Enough You Over Out Stick Get

My grandmother had always played show tunes from classic musicals at the piano when we were growing up, so that helped me fall in love with Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Lerner and Loewe, etc.

Love Me Growing Up Fall Growing Up

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

Adolescent Much Arrested Very Mozart

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

Learning Fun Goal Realize Classroom

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