- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Daily Basis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amount of education, in the most basic sense of the word, I receive on a daily basis through Skype amazes me. The technology is one of the reasons I wanted to join Skype and am eager to get Skype into every classroom around the globe.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skype is kind of amazing - look at Skype in the classroom - those are things that can really excite your organization. That's what has been really great to me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said boxing will not retire me, I will retire from boxing, and I stand by that statement.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children who come and see me. I see all my children every week, and there are the grandchildren, too.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.
- Boss
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
- Judges
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was delighted when Booktrust asked me to be chair of judges for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010.
- British Museum
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mum told me stories about her time in the Women's Royal Navy, and about her dad, who had died before I was born - he'd been sent to Australia as a child, then joined the Australian Army in the First World War and fought at Gallipoli.
- Led
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied Wilfred Owen for my English A Level, and that led me to Sassoon and Blunden, Rosenberg and Thomas.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody should be defended, and people should be willing to stand with them to let them know that an attack on them is an attack on me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020