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Martin Jacques Quotes

With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave monolingual Britain? Our political leaders like to boast about how global Britain is, but when it comes to languages, it is near the bottom of the global league, together with another island state, Japan.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: 1945

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Together Slow Political Island Will

A lot of times, people are reserved or maybe scared of testing what your body is capable of. I'm not.

People Body Your Body Capable Scared

One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked to, and authorized to, steal secrets. So if the question is whether the CIA steals secrets, the answer is yes.

Secrets Question Yes Things Answer

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

Michael Connelly

Memory Research Writing Process Back

I never saw the premise as 'Godless' is the story of a town full of women. I always saw 'Godless' as being made up of a lot of intersecting, related stories that literally meet in the final episode.

Women Story Meet Never Always Up

One of my friends is Snake from Skid Row.

Snake Friends Row

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

Stephen Ambrose

Rich Friends Washington Never Both

At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Fight World Corruption Clients Taxes

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

Job Writing Now Quit First Years

When I was a boy, I read a terrible article in a big weekly American magazine called the 'Saturday Evening Post.' In the middle of this family magazine on my parent's coffee table was an article about this family that was camping, and they were all mauled by a grizzly bear in their sleeping bags.

Family Coffee Evening American Table

Inhumane treatment of the undocumented cannot be rewarded with repeated budget increases. It goes against our country's most fundamental values and cannot continue. We must cut I.C.E.s budgets until these concerns are addressed.

Budget Values Country Cut Against

There are very few people I would trust to look after my children.

Children Trust People Look Would

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Progress Waiting Find Emotions Quit

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