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Nancy Astor Quotes

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: May 19, 1879 - May 2, 1964

Topics

Education Self Humanity Real Out Us

Unless confronted by an immediate, visible, or uncomfortable crisis, our nation's tendency is to take the security of the Western Hemisphere for granted.

Uncomfortable Security Crisis Nation

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

John Corigliano

Good Beginning Think You New Teach

I give my heart for this sport. I give my leg for this sport. I give my time for my family for this sport.

Family Heart Time Leg Give My Time

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

Mother People Kitchen Hands Now Kid

Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.

Face Up Being Ignored Being Give

I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Work Job Woman Man Finance Team

When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.

Robbie Williams

Light Myself Sleep Thoughts Down Go

I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.

Perspective Job Feel Watching See

My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much.

I Am Look I Can Looks Street Way

I'm asked all the time, 'Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?' And the answer to that is, 'No.' It's sort of a loss to stop a 10-year project, which is an imaginary project in the sense that it's a work of my imagination.

Work Great Time Imagination Loss

There will never be a universal way of cooking, but information will always be universally useful.

Cooking Information Will Way Never

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.

Portia de Rossi

Law Loved Acting Just Still

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