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"So it’s perhaps not for you, if you’re the kind of person who likes to find quick solutions. But I realised that, just by turning up, I am showing care that counts for a lot. I once had an email from one man who said, ‘Thank you for visiting today — not many people would waste their time with someone like me,’ which revealed a lot about his low self-esteem, but also about how he valued the time I gave him.”"

"You have to be able to offload yourself. You need a good support network around you, because you will get close to very distressing situations of extreme stress and families torn apart.”"

"At that point I’d done a few really successful talent-based equity partnerships, where the talent took equity in the brand. When I saw how well they went, I was like, ‘I’m going to do one of these for myself!"

"The idea for Good American came about because I thought there was a shift happening in popular culture."

"When I was coming up through the ranks everybody was stick thin, and that was what most women aspired to. But it’s so different now"

"I thought fashion was missing this. It wasn’t about plus-size or regular size, instead I thought there should be brands that are made for everybody. So that’s how Good American started"

"This is how we feel, and if you’re kind of with us jump on board.’ We had this huge public casting with 12,000 people, and we had to shut it down because we didn’t know how we’d count them all."

"When you come to LA as an English girl, you find a whole new world of hair and makeup. I’ve kind of embraced that."

"Here's the thing: Work-life balance is your problem, that's yours to figure out"

"Because the way we run organizations now is that no one misses dentist appointments or a doctor's appointment or a haircut or their kid's parent-teacher conference ... that's just not how we work anymore, right?"

"You come in, you have set hours, but there's flexibility within your working life. It's not like 'Oh my goodness, such and such is not at their desk.' That's just not how we work anymore."

"When somebody talks to me about their work-life balance in an interview process, I'm like, 'Something is wrong with you. You haven't been able to figure that out. That's not the way you win this interview"

"Work life balance is fine for the owner to ignore who makes 20x my salary! Massive red flag,"

"We cannot know what impact the loss of his mother may have had on the young Henry. Modern historians have been critical of her actions, seeing them in terms of ‘abandonment’, but the medieval mindset was not the same as ours, and it is unwise to ascribe modern sensibilities to our medieval forebears, especially when it was perfectly normal for them to be brought up outside the nuclear family and within a broader familial network, which might include cousins and aunts and uncles living in far-flung places."

"The greatest problem that Henry faced was that, after a long minority, his subjects had become used to a king who did not rule."

"Henry might not be King Louis’s equal in matters of war, but he would be in matters of style (the confusion of style with substance is a recurring theme in Henry’s life)."

"We might like to think of Henry III as a gentle and pious king (an image he wanted us to see), but many of those who suffered under the rule of his local officials had a different perspective on their monarch."

"Henry’s major problem was that the local communities of England rather liked the idea that the ruler needed their consent if he were to rule legitimately. It was no longer enough that Henry was God’s anointed; the reforms that had followed in the wake of the Provisions of Oxford had created a widespread expectation that consent could and should be a political force in national politics. Simon and his baronial colleagues had not acted alone in their reforms, but had tapped into the grievances of the county communities of thirteenth-century England. Indeed, it was these local grievances that gave the reformers their political weight."

"In thirteenth-century Europe, battles were rare, in part because they occurred only when both sides felt certain that they had the decisive advantage (it was relatively straightforward to avoid battle when necessary) and in part because the quickest way to win a battle was to kill or capture the opposition commander; unlike their modern counterparts, medieval war leaders led from the front and, as a result, were subject to more than their fair share of attention. A leader had to be certain of success if he were to engage the enemy in a battle."

"In the September Parliament, Henry made the announcement that the lands of Simon and his supporters were forfeit, and that the main beneficiaries were to be members of the royal family. In this act we are once again reminded that many thirteenth-century men and women had a tenuous grasp of the ethics of rulership, despite their repeated public pronouncements to the contrary: the kingdom was put there by God in order that they might predate on it."

"Most contemporaries would have argued that it was a king’s job to put in peril his soul for the good of his Church and of his people. But Henry was too self-obsessed to do that, too determined to live a life of a confessor saint and thereby join the mystical body of Christ in heaven and so be revered by the faithful in this world. In an age when the cult of royal saints was in the ascendancy, Henry’s ambition is understandable, but it was hardly justifiable and it was certainly not heroic."

"I loved my visit to Weston Green School this week and especially my chats with the School Councillors. This group of Yrs 3-6 shared with me their ideas on how to change our country - they had some innovative ideas on housing, were very keen on environmental protection and cared deeply about their local community."

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Butler. I thank the hon. Member for Newport West and Islwyn (Ruth Jones) for securing this debate, which is as important as it is timely—I am pleased to be speaking today as we break for the Easter recess."

"The right to practise one’s faith freely, without hindrance or discrimination, is fundamental. The Liberal Democrats have a proud history of liberal universalism."

"We believe that all people should be able to live their life free from fear, including fear of religious intolerance; that human rights are applicable everywhere; and that the universal declaration of human rights, which enshrines the freedoms of thought, conscience, faith and religious practice, has the same resonance now as it did when it was enshrined almost 80 years ago."

"It is distressing, therefore, to see Christians across the world persecuted and, worse still, to know that for many the situation is deteriorating. Today, at least 318 million Christians live lives subject to high levels of persecution and discrimination—an increase of 12% on 2021."

"Moreover, the number of countries that Open Doors considers to be conducting extreme or very high levels of persecution against Christians tripled in the past decade from 23 nations to 60."

"I feel that it is through giving a voice the way we do, that we can make a change no matter how small"

"African writers and publishers should place themselves at the forefront of innovating both the forms and formats of fiction."

"Although women are the backbone of the economy, we are shy about insisting on our right to more than handouts"

"She was a leader, activist for democracy, freedom, human rights, equality and justice and always stood on the side of the oppressed, particularly women and the poor. She worked tirelessly and with courage, using her razor-sharp intellect to focus thousands, of the task at hand in creative ways which brought her knowledge and everyday life together in very practical ways."

"Wanjiru urged particularly women and others to take responsibility for their lives by become leaders and to live their lives in the centre-fold of humanity, not its margins and she did this by example through practicing what she preached, but also training others and advocating for others."

"Wisdom is the key to your destination … Wisdom does not come on a silver platter but through hard lessons, receiving corrections, and because God means well even as he disciplines**1"

"People have a right to move and a right to continue with their education. It’s a basic human right."

"Feels like a gold rush."

"A lot of the people who are making money are not the people actually in the midst of it."

"It’s humans who decide whether all this should be done or not."

"We should remember that we have the agency to do that."

"Impacts people all over the world and they don’t get to have a say on how they should shape it."

"Overrepresent hegemonic viewpoints and encode biases potentially damaging to marginalised populations."

"You don’t want someone like me who’s going to get in your way."

"I think it made it really clear that unless there is external pressure to do something different, companies are not just going to self regulate."

"We need regulation and we need something better than just a profit motive."

"I’ve met so many people like you who think that they can just come here from other countries and take the hardest classes."

"I was being attacked by a bunch of guys, and nobody helped me at all."

"That was the scariest thing."

"We aim to expose the harms of the current AI system, serving as an early warning system to stop their spread."

"We focus on where AI tools are being experimented with before they get to the rest of the society and uncover what happens to the people."

"My hope is that our work counteracts the drive to centralize power and disenfranchise human beings."

"AI tools that actually help people and not try to replace them."