"When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country."

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Source : "The Labour Party in Perspective" by Clement Attlee, Left Book Club, 1937.

Clement Attlee

#Country Quotes #Book Quotes #People Quotes

“Before everything, I used to do this thing when I was upset-I used to take all my feelings and push them down inside me. It was like they were garbage and I was compacting it to get more in. I felt like I could keep pushing all my feelings down into my socks and I wouldn't have to worry about them. I don't think I do that anymore.”
“I don't want to just live delivered but I want to live free.”
“My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.”
“Strong families use the word we a lot, but I is never forgotten. Family members know they have the freedom to go off on their own, even if the direction is one that we have never followed before. The family message is, We're behind you, so you can be you.”
“I'm depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of cancel each other out. So the meaning is always open.”
“Beautiful is dangerous.”
“All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.”

Source : Source: londoncalling.com
“I think it crucial to recognize that you can't straightforwardly "adapt" Douglas Adams. Douglas's genius was uniquely his own. What I've tried to do here, and in every other version, is to be true to the character and the Adams' tone and approach to narrative, his unique brand of word-play and "idea-play" humor.”

Source : "Nailed It!: David and Kyriazis on 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'". Interview with Keith Silva, comicsbulletin.com. March 8, 2016.

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