Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children. – Michael Gove
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. – Thorstein Veblen
I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldnt believe it. It was so cool. It was the night before I was going on her show to sing on the Live Lounge. She was so lovely. – Birdy