"My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those."

-- Samantha Bond

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“In 1990, about 1 percent of American corporate profits were taken in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. By 2002, it was up to 17 percent, and it'll be up to 20-25 percent very quickly. It's a major problem. Fundamentally, we have a tax system designed for a national, industrial, wage economy, which is what we had in the early 1900s. We now live in a global, asset-based, services world. And we need to have a tax system that follows the economic order or it's going to interfere with economic growth, it's going to reduce people's incomes, and it's going to damage the US.”

Source : "Our Indefensible Tax System". Interview With Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 11, 2006.
“The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.”
“I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.”

Source : "Bob Brown and the media: 'I'll take them on ... they've crossed the line'". Interview with John Keane, theconversation.com. June 2, 2011.
“My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.”

Source : Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.10, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.”
“The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.”
“I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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