Nicholas Winton Quotes

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

Nicholas Winton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 19, 1909 - July 1, 2015

Topics

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I've been very fortunate to work with a lot of directors who understand that actors need to feel empowered in order to really do their job.

John Cabrera

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Every time someone uses a bathroom and they flush, all the bacteria is shot into the air.

Megan Fox

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I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.

Angela Merkel

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The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Anything we can do that lets people find information more quickly is something we're interested in.

Stewart Butterfield

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You have to stand on your beliefs.

Luke James

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Jean Anouilh

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My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and there was a lot of loss that came with that, so my parents were reluctant to talk about those things. So I had, by and large, an American childhood.

Dinaw Mengestu

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I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Colin Baker

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Even perfection has room for improvement.

Ty Warner

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There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Thornton Wilder

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The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

Tibor Fischer

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