Richard Rodney Bennett Quotes

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

Richard Rodney Bennett

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GoodScienceYouGamesEncourage

The inability of middle-class people to receive loans in developing countries has had a stifling effect on economic growth and prosperity around the globe.

Joe Lonsdale

GrowthPeopleProsperityEconomic

I don't think of gay writers. I mean if you were to say to me who are the straight writers, well, you wouldn't ask me that question. So for me to identify a little tribe of gay writers, I don't know.

Joe Mantello

MeThinkYouGayKnowSay

I think there's no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases - smallpox, polio, etc. So vaccines are an invaluable medication. Like any medication, they also should be - what shall we say? - approved by a regulatory board that people can trust.

Jill Stein

TrustPeopleThinkSayQuestionUs

I'm sick of playing romantic leads.

John Corbett

RomanticSickPlayingLeads

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

John Steinbeck

ManDedicationBelieveLiterature

Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.

Stephanie March

ChildrenWorldNightThinkThinking

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

Sri Aurobindo

SpiritualRaceGreatestGospelWorks

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

Rosanne Cash

FreedomPeopleViewAmericaLoudest

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Jawaharlal Nehru

LeaderManActionCrisisAlwaysHis

There's nothing more romantic after not seeing your husband for four months than to have our first night back together, on a Broadway stage, with 12 million people watching.

Deborra-Lee Furness

RomanticTogetherPeopleNightBack

All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.

Conrad Black

LifeFreedomWorldThinkingHonor

I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to the reader, but also I need clarity.

Claire Messud

ExperienceWorldClarityWillWay

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