“What was most odd was that teachers would tell you what to do and what to think and they would write everything on a blackboard and you would copy it all down.”

— Joanna MacGregor

The Evening Standard - 04/07/2002
Childhood

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British musician 1959

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“What would you think the odds were that this town could keep that secret for this long?”

W. Mark Felt (1913–2008) Whistleblower who exposed the Watergate scandal

Benjamin C. Bradlee, former Executive Editor of the Washington Post, who, along with Woodward and Bernstein, were the only ones publicly known to know the identity of "Deep Throat."

“Do you expect teachers to draw on the blackboard, how to wear a condom? This would be surely embarrassing to our teachers. The curriculum must be changed to suit Indian conditions.”

Prakash Javadekar (1951) Indian politician

On a new sex education course, as quoted in " Sex education runs into trouble http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6949714.stm", BBC News (22 August 2007)

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.”

David Hockney (1937) British artist

From a series of interviews with Marco Livingstone (April 22 - May 7, 1980 and July 6 - 7, 1980) quoted in Livingstone's David Hockney (1981), p. 207
1980s