Peter Benenson Quotes

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

Peter Benenson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 31, 1921 - February 25, 2005

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When you're on this major English estate, breathing in the English air, and it's untouched, you can feel its presence. It's a whole different feel. It really felt like we were there living it. It didn't feel modern, ever.

Jennifer Coolidge

FeelYouLivingAirBreathingWhole

Half the struggle is just getting yourself to the gym or getting yourself in your workout gear and ready for action.

Mel B

StruggleYourselfActionGymReady

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

MeEyeFacePoliticalResultLost

To win BBC's Sound of 2018 was a huge honour. A lot of my favourite artists have won it before.

Sigrid

WinSoundArtistsBeforeWonHonour

What's nice about Twitter is that you've got that point of contact with your fans that artists have never had before. I think it's good for musicians. Just as long as you don't start tweeting things about your girlfriends or boyfriends - there's got to be a line.

Tom Odell

GoodStartThinkMusiciansLongYou

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us.

Rita Dove

LifePoetryPeopleThinkForgetOut

Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.

Ron Wyden

WorkCarTechnologyHistoryPolice

My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.

Lucy Lawless

PeopleMePlanI CanNeverSides

Honestly, it is not all about attitude; it is all about heart. You can have the attitude, you can have the swagger, you can talk your way, but it is all about heart.

Jason Pierre-Paul

AttitudeHeartYouWayTalkSwagger

Every game is different, and there is no easy game at international level.

Dele Alli

GameEasyLevelDifferentEvery

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

Bruce Springsteen

LifeTimeWritingRestInteresting

Atlanta's a great city to cultivate your own thing - from fashion to music to food.

Brian Tyree Henry

MusicGreatFoodCityFashionOwn

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