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Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.

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• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Man

• At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Growing

• The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Bad
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• A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Soviet
  • FBI
  • July

• I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Together
  • Want
  • Just

• I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.

  

  Victor Oladipo
  • Weird
  • Just
  • Dude

• The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Mind
  • May
  • Author

• Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Reach
  • Within
  • Trusted

• It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Important
  • Women
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• You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Thoughts

• Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Great
  • Think
  • Soccer

• One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
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  • Look

• During the holidays, I often see my sisters, who still, even after all these years, can't always seem to agree with me. They take silly, indefensible positions, such as denying that my parents loved me more because I was the better child.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Silly

• What a horrible system we had. How blind we were.

  

  Hans Frank

• I think that on the whole man would be living a more natural life if he were a vegetarian.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life

• I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Moon
  • Lonely

• I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up.

  

  Saskia de Brauw
  • Father
  • Body
  • Teen

• As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.

  

  Ryunosuke Satoro
  • Imagine
  • Hell
  • Cry

• Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.

  

  Mariano Rivera

• Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.

  

  Daniel Pipes