Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.
The age of national leaders, or candidates for high office, has never been automatically regarded as an issue for concern.
I remember becoming aware of women’s issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.
Blair worshipped Thatcherism, could see little or no wrong in it, believed that that was what the country needed, thought that there was no alternative, regarded it as a legacy that had to be built on rather than rejected.
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent the law enforcement from getting information it really needs. But the government would have to get a search warrant, which requires it to show that it has probable cause connecting what is being searched to a crime.
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.
Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded as symptoms of ‘Westernisation.’
Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
A few years’ experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
My husband often remarked what a pity it was that a great country like America, which in Europe is still regarded as such a young nation, should be represented seemingly only by old or infirm men.
The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I’m very passionate about injustice against women and there’s too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold.
What used to be called ‘good manners’ is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she’s likely to call security.
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man’s work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.
When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.
I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.
I don’t want to be regarded as a female pundit. I’m a pundit.
Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
My family regarded the end of my career as a sign they could really enjoy life a bit rather than cancelling plans on the back of a poor result – it happened many times!
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
I don’t like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left.
France has long been regarded as the most adept at stealing trade secrets.
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn’t exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an immediate empathy with the victims of such senseless discrimination. Because although the Turks were never slaves, they were regarded as enemies within Europe because of their Muslim beliefs.
A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.
I know I’m regarded as an establishment figure, but I was crucified by the establishment for ‘Oh! What a Lovely War’, ‘Gandhi’ and ‘Cry Freedom.’
Britain went to war in 1939 in the name of freedom and democracy, but fielded armies within whose ranks were black and brown men who were regarded and often treated as second-class citizens.
When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers.
Of course, I’d love to be regarded as a voice of authority.
The men I worked for didn’t look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse.
I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition.
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
I had friends around campus and great teammates. I didn’t want to leave. I didn’t expect to be regarded and scouted as such a high pick, so it was a crazy twist to reality. I’d always wanted to make the NBA. It was my dream. Then all of a sudden, people were telling me I’d be the fourth pick if I entered the draft.
I was always regarded as being better than ninety percent of the kids in school, but I was also something of a loner.
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.
All my life, I’ve wanted to write a book inspired by my relationship with my grandfather. Basically, my grandfather was a guy who everybody in the family regarded as disagreeable at best. But I loved him intensely. He was wonderful to me.
I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker – all this is in your own hands.
Obviously, Ian Paisley and I were regarded as very bitter opponents. When we decided in March 2007 to govern together, both of us understood that we weren’t going to change our views but that we had to work with one another if we were to end the conflict and move forward.
Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You’re a traitor.
I want to be regarded as a world-class midfielder.
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
In Britain I’m sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
The Premier League is the best league in the world, and it is very well regarded if you get a chance to play in it.
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor’s trade.
