Bertil Ohlin I was born into an upper-middle class family in a village in the South of Sweden in April 1899. It was a large family with seven children, a large house, and a home which was very hospitable and open to friends and relatives. – Bertil Ohlin April Quotes Born Quotes Children Quotes Class Quotes Family Quotes Friends Quotes Hospitable Quotes House Quotes Relatives Quotes South Quotes Sweden Quotes Uppermiddle Quotes Village Quotes As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed – and I accepted – studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
Elizabeth Banks I’m not a particularly shiny, happy person. I’m fairly cynical, and that’s what draws me to comedy. – Elizabeth Banks
Dion DiMucci There’s a lot of unreleased blues stuff I did with the Apollo Theater musicians, and there was of experimenting going on for me in the mid-’60s in that studio, which I think frustrated Columbia. – Dion DiMucci
Katherine Boo We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves. – Katherine Boo
Christopher Timothy One of the reasons I didn’t tell people I had cancer was I thought it might affect work. – Christopher Timothy
Jim Crace I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes. – Jim Crace
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