Goal achievement is hero’s work.
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.
The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it’s cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.
Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.
There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
The fact is that I loved being in England.
I’ve got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
I’ve always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you’re about.
We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.
I’d always been a great fan of George Orwell.
The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.
We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.
Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.
O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.
So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.
Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China’s culture.