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On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

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• A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • True
  • Champion
  • Watching

• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Greed
  • Generosity
  • Goodness

• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Men
  • Long
  • Home

• They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Job
  • Daily

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• Babyface is definitely a big inspiration.

  

  Taio Cruz
  • Inspiration
  • Baby face

• Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Time
  • Writing
  • House

• Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Success
  • Story
  • Monster

• I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Talk
  • Fellow
  • Forbidden

• There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Success
  • Two
  • Commercial

• Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Support
  • Care
  • Show

• For eight months, from January to August of 2007, I filmed with Anna Wintour and her team at 'Vogue' as they created the September 2007 issue of the magazine.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Team
  • Created
  • Issue

• It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Up
  • Song
  • Dream

• I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I'm looking at other mediums, too. I'm a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Looking Forward

• So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long

• I was panicked a bit because I really don’t know about … the Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure. I came home and I asked my husband, I said, 'Wasn't that like the Bay of Pigs thing?' And he said, 'Oh, Dana.'

  

  Dana Perino
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Husband

• Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

  

  Leo Szilard
  • Time
  • May
  • Science

• In exasperation, I furiously attacked the floors and walls of the Moscow Theater. My mural paintings sight there, in obscurity. Have you seen them? Rant and rave, my contemporaries! In one way or another, my first theatrical alphabet gave you a belly-ache. Not modest? I'll leave that to my grandmother: it bores me. Despise me, if you like. (ca. 1921)

  

  Marc Chagall
  • Grandmother

• The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Heart
  • Ocean
  • Sadness

• We've been together 32 years and married for 27.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Together
  • Years
  • Married

• I won't let any of my friends become a fan. To me, you're either a friend or you're a fan. That doesn't mean my friends can't support me, because they all do, but they can't treat me differently than they would treat someone else. None of my friends are in awe of me.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • Friends
  • Support
  • Friend

• All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • Life
  • True

• On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

  

  Mark Steyn