Barbara Castle Quotes

It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.

Barbara Castle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 6, 1910 - May 3, 2002

Topics

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I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

Joan Jett

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I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

Jennifer Lopez

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Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

Robert Quine

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When you see a fly flitting around your hair or your potato salad, you might see an annoyance. But in my lab, you really see a marvelous machine: arguably the most sophisticated flying device on the planet.

Michael Dickinson

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If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

Sidney Buchman

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The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

Robert Wyatt

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I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show.

Michael Shanks

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I'm only the third artist who's ever drawn at Gitmo.

Molly Crabapple

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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Lord Byron

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There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

Lisa Ling

DayChildWorldLookCountryNeed

We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved.

Joshua Foer

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One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.

Jason Alexander

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