"I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British."

-- Chris Froome

#Parent Quotes #Heritage Quotes #My Family Quotes

“The reason the United States is not aging rapidly in terms of its demographics is because we accept people as newcomers to this society in numbers that far surpass any of our major peers or rivals.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.”
“Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.”

Source : Carlo Collodi (1916). “Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet”
“I tell cold callers I'm very interested but a bit deaf, my hearing aid is not working properly and can they speak up. The idea is to deliberately miss-hear what they say, ask them to repeat, only louder, and see how loud I can get them to shout. After a while I say "I'm not really deaf" and was just wasting their time, as they were doing with me.”
“The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system . We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.”

Source : "Whole Earth Models and Systems". "The CoEvolution Quarterly", p. 98 - 108, Summer 1982.
“I'm not a one-sex person, and yet I hate the term bisexual. It sounds creepy to me, and I don't think I'm creepy. There are times when I feel downright romantic.”
“I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.”

Source : "Just For Laughs: On The Edge". 2002.
“I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.”

Source : "Julian T Borlaski’s Gowanus Atropolis" by Nicolle Elizabeth, believermag.com. February 1, 2012.

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