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I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

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• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Work
  • Me
  • Myself

• You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Think
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• Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Children
  • Today
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• Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Feist
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• India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • May
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• Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Simple

• There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • World
  • Different
  • Today

• I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Fame

• The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is, 'How does it end?' Endings carry tremendous weight with readers; if they don't like the ending, chances are they'll say they didn't like the work. Failed endings are also the most common problems editors have with submitted works.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Question

• Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their Internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Good
  • Beginning
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• Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Living

• Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director, and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop.

  

  Ben Hecht
  • Good
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• Most men would feel insulted, if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages.  But many are no more worthily employed now.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Men
  • Wall

• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

  

  Marie Curie
  • People

• I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job. Obviously, if I had liked my mouth I wouldn't have had it re-done.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Done
  • Job

• Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

  

  Dave Parnas

• I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Pretty
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• Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Broken

• Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And because this is so, judges will often try to mold and steer the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends. Such activity is not necessarily wrong or invalid.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Important
  • Law
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• Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Action
  • Safety

• My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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• I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

  

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