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“My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.”
“Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.”
| Henry Adams, Historian (1838) |
| Paul Bailey, Novelist (1937) |
| Iain Banks, Writer (1954) |
| Christopher Eccleston, Actor (1964) |
| Warren Ellis, Author (1968) |
| Robert J. Flaherty, Director (1884) |
| Richard Ford, Author (1944) |
| Ernst Haeckel, Scientist (1834) |
| Peter Hain, Politician (1950) |
| Carl Icahn, Businessman (1936) |
| Henry Walter Bates, Environmentalist (1892) |
| Angela Carter, Novelist (1992) |
| John W. Gardner, Educator (2002) |
| Keith Haring, Artist (1990) |