"I think the French agonise more about being French, I don't think English think about being English that much. I think the Scottish think about being Scottish and the Welsh think about being Welsh, but the English don't really care. But the French think about it all the time, it's an absolute preoccupation."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

Jonathan Meades

#Thinking Quotes #Care Quotes #Scottish Quotes

“Life is what you make it.”
“The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.”
“I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.”
“In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.”
“Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.”

Source : Caroline Leavitt (2007). “Girls in Trouble: A Novel”, p.222, Macmillan
“I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!”
“In fact, if you read what Kant has to say about feeling, desire and emotion, you see that he is not at all hostile to these. He is suspicious of them insofar as they represent the corruption of social life (here he follows Rousseau), but he also thinks a variety of feelings (including respect and love of humanity) arise directly from reason - there is, in other words, no daylight between the heart and the head regarding such feelings.”
“Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.”

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