Korky Paul Quotes

I was brought up in Zimbabwe, and there were seven of us in my family, so it was difficult to read aloud to us all. There weren't that many picture books around in the Fifties in Zimbabwe. My favourite was Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, which was really frightening.

Korky Paul

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Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

Jim Morrison

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Joe Louis was one of my first heroes.

Robert Goulet

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I've done quite a few films that are based on books, and it's always nerve-wracking because there's an audience who has read and loved the book, and what if they see the movie and hate it?

Angourie Rice

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Think of energy almost like emotional electricity. It has a powerful way of uniting ordinary people, their connected spirit, to do extraordinary things.

Angela Ahrendts

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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It's a very frightening feeling to feel like you can have a busted taillight or wear a hoodie or be playing in a park, and someone can take your life away. To have two children, two black boys, you ask yourself a lot of questions about how do I protect my family. Is there anything I can actually do?

Sterling K. Brown

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There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Sophocles

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More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.

Simon Mainwaring

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My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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The gender parity is something that has been organic to Eventbrite since we started building a team.

Julia Hartz

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Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

Jonathan Raban

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I'm a huge fan of basketball. Any time you get a chance to watch basketball, I do it.

Draymond Green

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