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Linda Colley Quotes

The 1857 uprising in India did not free the subcontinent, but it changed the way the British viewed and sought to govern it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: September 13, 1949

Topics

Free India Way British Changed Did

As a Middle Eastern male, I know there's certain things I'm not supposed to say on an airplane in the U.S., right? I'm not supposed to be walking down the aisle, and be like, 'Hi, Jack.' That's not cool. Even if I'm there with my friend named Jack, I say, 'Greetings, Jack. Salutations, Jack.' Never 'Hi, Jack.'

Friend Cool Airplane Walking Down

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Nature Time Water Day Sky Lie

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Sports Football Baseball Basketball

Pride was a date night - the cool thing to do at the time - so people were dressed to the nines, and they got quite an experience, visually and otherwise. It was Cirque du Soleil meets the Super Bowl meets WrestleMania meets your favorite rock n' roll concert.

Time Experience People Cool Night

The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.

Music Amazing Me Door World Meaning

Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people.

Loneliness People Me Moments Come

If I get one more person telling me I look like Eliot Spitzer, I'm just going to have to play the guy one day.

Day Me Look Person Play One Day

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

Love Joy Me Comedy Admire Comedians

In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.

Food Try Eat Without Big Pesticides

I cannot tell people who are struggling that I come first. I just cannot.

Jason Alexander

People First Tell Cannot Come Just

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

People Brain World Photography Right

I don't have no issue with any guy. I'm a football player. I'm a competitor. When we're in the field, we're going to compete and be competitive. It's not personal between none of these guys. It's all in the game.

Football Game Personal Compete Going

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