QUOTES OF THE WEEK
We’d need to understand how the changes might affect individuals because any time you change the rules people will benefit and people will lose out. So this is never reform that should be done in a piecemeal manner. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar signalled the Government won’t take any immediate action to change pension rules that leave thousands of women out of pocket.
EU citizens living lawfully in the UK today will be able to stay. UK Prime Minister Theresa May, saying they were in “touching distance” of an agreement on this issue in the Brexit negotiations.
Despite what the British press says, this is a process that is moving ahead step by step. German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Brexit.
Bigotry seems emboldened. Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication. We need to recall and recover our own identity. Former US president George W Bush on Trump-era US politics.
Politicians get away with making bad decisions, film producers get away with misbehaviour of every kind — although Harvey Weinstein doesn’t seem to be getting away with it now. And I think the great relief of fairytales for young children is you get what you deserve. Writer Philip Pullman.
We are at a watershed moment. This is a sea change. I think his last name will become a noun and a verb. It will become an identifying moniker for a state of being for which there is a before and an after. Actor Tom Hanks, saying that Harvey Weinstein would never recover his prime position in the film industry.
She was in a lift with Harvey Weinstein and he touched her breast — she farted and he passed out. Maureen Lipman on fellow actress Miriam Margolyes.
Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch. Broadcaster Graham Norton.
I was drunk all night and all morning. I turned up for filming straight from the clubs. Not very professional. I’m different now. Ringo Starr recalls making The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night in the 1960s.
Fashion is about eventually becoming naked. Designer Dame Vivienne Westwood.
I do a one-man show so me not having my arms is half of the show. Singer Ed Sheeran, who has had to postpone shows after breaking both arms in a cycling accident, making it impossible for him to play the guitar.
I feel more relaxed, I just feel I’ve sat into my own skin. I feel so good. Singer Cheryl on motherhood.