#ford

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. ↗

— Gale Norton

#air pollution #approaches #control #hoover #i

I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service. ↗

— Melita Norwood

#cost #could #defeat #did #education

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#himself #i #lawyer #loved #naive

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#because #big #big break #break #cambridge

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#fully #had #hamlet #i #most

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#after #big #commissioned #documentary #england

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#challenged #college #convinced #dishes #expense

When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#ford #god #green #how #i

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#ford #give #john #john ford #try

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job. ↗

— Barack Obama

#allow #also #believe #between #certain