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President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Like
  • Just

• I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Women
  • Career
  • Thought

• I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • History
  • View

• Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Help
  • Political
  • Government

• Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Getting
  • Getting Older

• A house divided against itself cannot stand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Stand
  • Divided

• My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • World
  • Music
  • School

• I definitely like wearing leotards.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Like
  • Definitely
  • Wearing

• The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Never
  • Facts

• Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Wife
  • Neighbor
  • Others

• When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • First
  • Congress

• Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Rest
  • Company
  • Oil

• The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park, Wallyworld, at the end of 'Vacation.' The last 20 minutes of the film was entirely different - and bombed so badly that the audience just stopped cold.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Different
  • Movie
  • End

• While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Great
  • Why
  • Awesome

• The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Stronger
  • Defence
  • NATO

• At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Age
  • Me

• We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised.

  

  John Sayles
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Weekend

• Obviously, having my brother on the bag is big for me. He's my best friend. So you know, having my brother there, we spend a lot of time with our caddie. So, someone you enjoy being around.

  

  Dustin Johnson
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Brother

• I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten.

  

  Adam Rapp
  • Moments

• The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Truth
  • Nervous

• President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.

  

  David Powers
  • Friend