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Peter Carey Quotes

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

Peter Carey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: australian
Birth: May 7, 1943

Topics

Society Thought American You True

We had rising student achievement across the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, real school choice across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go.

Jeb Bush

Achievement School Accountability Go

Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.

Steven Pinker

Relationship Words Speak Someone You

I'm like the Christina Aguilera of the Internet.

Sky Ferreira

Internet Like Aguilera

It took a while, but your life prepares you for these roles.

Tony Burton

Life You Your Roles Took While

Even if a kid doesn't go into acting or the arts like I did, some kids need that environment to find themselves and find what they love to do.

Tony Hale

Love Environment Find Acting Go Kid

Most of the time with video games, you're recording by yourself.

Roger Craig Smith

Time Yourself Video Games You Games

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.

Ron Wyden

Time Roads Saying Rome Matter Old

A big side of football is reacting to what happens.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

Football Side Big Happens Reacting

The truth is, the sport of skiing takes so much effort, setting up and traveling with equipment, that you can only train for a certain number of days in the summer. Most of my peers ski between 40 to 60 days. I ski about 55 days.

Julia Mancuso

Truth Effort Skiing Truth Is You Up

Too many startups get in the habit of continually raising more and more money, which has the deleterious effect of both pushing out profitability and limiting your exit options. The less rounds of capital you need to raise, the more of your company you get to own.

Jay Samit

Money Habit You More Need Exit

You read things, and they come to you, and if they speak to you at the moment and there's a voice in you that says, 'I don't know, that's risky,' or 'That's challenging,' then do it. Run at it and tackle it. And if it's bad, it's bad. You're gonna get over it.

Corey Hawkins

Moment Voice Speak You Bad Run

I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.

Arnold Palmer

Fly Airplane My Own Own Than Since