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I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

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• I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Up
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• Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
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• The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Great
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• If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
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• When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
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• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • School
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• Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • High
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• People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • People
  • Changes
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• I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • World
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• My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Men
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• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
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• It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

  

  Owen Hart
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• I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

  

  Jack Welch
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• I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• When I say I had a cosmic confidence that we were capable of writing good music, I'm speaking about that time when we met Sam Fogarino. Greg ex-drummer is actually a really great drummer and a great guy. I never want to sound like I am belittling his contributions in the early days, but when Sam joined, there was an immediacy of, like, "Here we go."

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
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• I was a good fielder in the gully in my college days. But in the outfield, I was not such a good fielder.

  

  Mohammad Azharuddin
  • College
  • Outfield

• I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Art
  • Question

• I hope your committee will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Hope

• This is a place where stars can feel like freaks, and freaks can feel like stars. I want to put stripper poles in here for public use so if any girl wants to get up and dance, she can.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Place
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• I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

  

  Chris Lilley