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""Technology" is a cross-curriculum perspective running through the new Australia Curriculum, and there are a number of technology subject areas as well that include coding, which has not previously been part of the Australian Curriculum."
"Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D."
"I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of different books. And you begin by maybe copying the style of writers that really knocked you out."
"The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity."
"When you think about Peyton Manning, you think about numbers. When you think about Tom Brady, you think about championships"
"I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it."
"No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser."
"What did you do to Amma?" "I was late to school." He studied my face. I studied his. "Number 2?" I nodded. "Sharp?" "Started out sharp and then she sharpened it."
"Kris [Jenner] and the family, they have the power of communication. This is the number one communications company."
"If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world."
"I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't."
"What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life."
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense."
"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."
"Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want."
"What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong."
"I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me."
"Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India."
"The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers."
