James Meade Quotes

Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.

James Meade

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 23, 1907 - December 22, 1995

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My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.

Jim Pattison

MotherTeacherMeChristmasBand

You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.

Andy Serkis

YouFallWrongGoPlanetMake

It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.

Michael Haneke

LifeFunnyFatherMotherBabyYou

I certainly could've made a lot more money buying cheap ingredients, and people might not have been able to tell the difference. That was never a part of the calculus. It was not part of my DNA.

Steve Ells

MoneyPeopleDNAMoreNeverCheap

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

Steven Sinofsky

WorkBestCreativeTeamProblemBig

To me, a yummy mummy is a mum in her twenties, like Donna Air.

Trinny Woodall

MeAirHerLikeTwentiesMummy

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

Rupert Penry-Jones

ParentsMeThinkRejectionSayWant

When I think about my teenage years, when my parents broke up, and feeling alone and being out of control and having to survive... And then other times when you've had to find your own way... that's always been a dominant theme in what I've done.

Matt Bellamy

AloneParentsControlSurviveThink

The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.

Douglas Coupland

GoodWayRealLikeFeltGood Way

It was one of those early mid-life crises, really. I started asking myself, 'What is it that I want from my life?' This question kept haunting me: 'Do I want to be a lawyer who always wanted to be a writer, or do I actually want to be a writer?

Petina Gappah

LifeMyselfMeLawyerMy LifeEarly

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

Nina Fedoroff

GoodScienceInfluenceAdviceOpen

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

Nicolas Roeg

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