Rabih Alameddine When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA. – Rabih Alameddine Boarding Quotes Civil Quotes England Quotes Lebanese Quotes School Quotes Shipped Quotes Started Quotes Ucla Quotes War Quotes In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he’d built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted. I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother’s books.
Robert Sapolsky Of necessity, a scientist typically studies one incredibly tiny sliver of some biological system, totally ensconced within one discipline, because even figuring out how one sliver works is really hard. – Robert Sapolsky
Robert A Dahl Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered. – Robert A Dahl
Mike Bartlett The days of print media are numbered. Some papers will be around for a few years, but everyone knows news is going online. Then you have to ask, who pays for it? How do you deliver it? Is there any money for proper investigative reporting? – Mike Bartlett
Sergei Polunin Some of my friends were going to dancing school and, when one of them was auditioning for a ballet school in Kiev, my mother saw an opportunity for me to do that, so we could move to a bigger, better city. – Sergei Polunin
A J Pritchard I want to show people what I’m about – not just, ‘Here’s my celebrity partner this year that I’m going to showcase.’ – A J Pritchard
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