Francis Spufford Quotes

You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the values of high culture. Not just high culture but middle culture, low culture, kinds of exciting eye-catching crap of all kinds. Everyone needs that.

Francis Spufford

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I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.

Jennifer Lynch

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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

Sugar Ray Leonard

NeverBeenFightersExceptHadAli

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.

Ron Fournier

GreatWashingtonOvercomeOddsTimes

I have quite dark skin, and when I had my son, I suffered quite bad pigmentation; I had dark patches on my face. Everyone said it would go, but it would take a very long time for them to even slightly disappear.

Louise Nurding

SonTimeFaceBadDarkSkin

If I could be generous and move forward and spread my feelers business-wise and also creatively, that's the best position to put myself in.

Jon Bellion

MyselfBestForwardPositionSpread

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

David Weinberger

HistoryImportantChangesEventsUs

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.

Claire Denis

WomenMenTogetherWorldViolence

There is no limit to how far drag can go.

Aquaria

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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Winston Churchill

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It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

Susan George

PoliticsPeopleBackYoungNow

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Thomas Paine

CharacterEasierThanMuchRecovered

The next time a news outlet complains about the state of our political rhetoric or the uninformed U.S. voter, we should promptly point them to the video of Ashley Parker raucous in a Polish cemetery or Philip Rucker's diatribes on party invitations.

Richard Grenell

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