"I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years."

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Source : "Today" Programme, BBC, www.bbc.co.uk. May 2010.

Yvette Cooper

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“Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.”
“Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.”

Source : Christopher Marlowe (2014). “Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus”, p.524, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.”

Source : Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.237, Delacorte Press
“You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success.”
“Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.”
“I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.”
“We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.”
“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”

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