Hilary Benn Decisions about whether industries or companies should be publicly or privately owned are for the governments of developing countries to make; but where they ask for our assistance we’ll give it. – Hilary Benn Assistance Quotes Companies Quotes Countries Quotes Decisions Quotes Developing Quotes Governments Quotes Industries Quotes Owned Quotes Privately Quotes Publicly Quotes It makes no sense to spend precious resources on propping up loss-making, state-owned enterprises when they could be used to get more children into school or provide more midwives to reduce the number of mothers dying in childbirth. Average tariffs between rich countries are only 3 per cent. But developing countries face tariffs of more than 300 per cent in the EU for meat and more than 200 per cent in the US for fruit and nuts. These need to come down dramatically.
HomePico IyerTravel We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that’s why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool’s paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home. – Pico Iyer
Ashly Burch You need to make sure you’re doing vocal warmups and drinking tea – and if you have a really emotional scene, you have to make sure to take care of yourself afterwards. – Ashly Burch
John Singleton I’ve got passion, and for people who don’t, I make them see how trite their lives are. – John Singleton
Grace Napolitano Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement. – Grace Napolitano
Chris Wooding I hate SF books that think all you need to make a book is cool technology and mind-bending ideas without a decent plot or characters. And I hate when fantasy books are allowed to ramble off into five hundred page diatribes which don’t advance the story one bit. – Chris Wooding
Angourie Rice My dad worked for a theatre company that was two minutes away from my primary school, so I’d just walk there after school and watch the rehearsals. I think that’s probably when I fell in love with acting and telling stories. – Angourie Rice
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