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• I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Want
  • End

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Shopping

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • School
  • Volunteer
  • Los Angeles

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Law
  • Party
  • German

• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Race

• Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Country
  • Identity
  • Diversity

• I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Own

• I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Believe
  • May
  • Circumstances

• I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.

  

  Oliver North
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Political

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Money
  • Power
  • Rise

• It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • May
  • Man
  • Reality

• Don't take 'no' for an answer.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Answer
  • Take

• I don't want to feel like I'm a television host - because I don't think that I am. What I really want to feel like is, I am you; I just happen to be here.

  

  James Corden

• But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions of all the other stars; and these new planets move about another very large star [Jupiter] like Venus and Mercury, and perchance the other known planets, move about the Sun. As soon as this tract, which I shall send to all the philosophers and mathematicians as an announcement, is finished, I shall send a copy to the Most Serene Grand Duke, together with an excellent spyglass, so that he can verify all these truths.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Truths
  • Planets
  • Wonders

• Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Pray
  • Produce
  • Explanation

• I`m an old duck hunter. I like to go hunting where the ducks are. We`re looking for votes. I think maybe poaching some of those soft Donald Trump Republican votes would be the place to go.

  

  William Weld
  • Thinking
  • Vote
  • Republican

• We are not racists or extremists in the Front National. We are people who love our country.

  

  Marion Marechal-Le Pen
  • People
  • Country

• Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

  

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