I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.
Marcus Brigstocke
Recitation: by Male by Female
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.
Michael Gove
ChildrenMathematicsPeopleSpeak
I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time.
Michael Douglas
TimePeaceSchoolWarGoUniversity
Some kind of correction will always happen. But it depends on the specific companies.
Masayoshi Son
KindWillAlwaysHappenDepends
Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.
Mike Quigley
GovernmentAccountabilityFighting
One day when I was 16, I rode my bike to the nearby DMV office to get my driver's permit. Some of my friends already had their licenses, so I figured it was time. But when I handed the clerk my green card as proof of U.S. residency, she flipped it around, examining it. 'This is fake,' she whispered. 'Don't come back here again.'
Jose Antonio Vargas
TimeDayBikeGreenFakeFriends
You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.
Diablo Cody
PeopleMeThinkNever ForgetYou
The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I have an interest in politics, which maybe works its way into the songs in small, subtle ways.
Dean Wareham
EducationHistoryStylePoliticsWay
If I disliked managing, I liked umpiring even less.
Bobby Wallace
EvenLikedLessDislikedManaging
I had the pleasure of working for 'The Late Show' with O'Brien when I was an NBC page at 30 Rockefeller Center, and it was always so much fun.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
FunLatePageAlwaysPleasureShow
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
Pierre Corneille
WhoInsultedHeHimselfDeserves
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
Seth Grahame-Smith
StoryConfusedLoseWillMoreGet
Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions.
Morris Gleitzman
GoodTimeProblemsKnowAlwaysKids
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