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The more cases of Ebola infection we have, the more chances there are for the virus to mutate in a particular way that adapts it well to living in humans, replicating in humans, and perhaps transmitting from human to human.

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• To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Something
  • Lifetime
  • U.S.

• I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Music
  • Me
  • Sound

• My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Marriage

• By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Time
  • You
  • First

• I say I am stronger than fear.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Fear
  • Stronger

• I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Theatre
  • Performance
  • Musical

• The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Best
  • Process

• I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • You
  • Made
  • Last

• The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Life
  • Book
  • My Life

• Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • School
  • Father
  • Society

• I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • Find
  • Old
  • Jackson

• Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • May
  • Think
  • Plan

• I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

  

  Laura Riding
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Nature

• Livin amuk, never givin a fuck Gimme the keys I'm drunk, and I've never driven a truck.

  

  Eminem
  • Drunk
  • Truck

• Don't knock th' weather. Nine-tenths o' th' people couldn' start a conversation if it didn' change once in a while.

  

  Kin Hubbard
  • People

• Yes, I'm an African, born and bred. My forebears arrived in South Africa in 1688. My later forebears fought the first modern anti-colonial war on the continent of Africa, against Great Britain. I'm an African, through and through, and the fact that I'm white does not detract from my total commitment to my country and through my country, to our continent.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Great
  • Country
  • War

• The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.

  

  Anne Geddes
  • Photography
  • Create
  • Image

• There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

  

  James Sanborn
  • People
  • History
  • Moments

• Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Girl
  • Hair
  • Boy

• I have many influences and poets whose work I love. My personal canon includes Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Stevens, Duncan and Barbara Guest - and many living poets as well.

  

  Brenda Hillman
  • Work

• The more cases of Ebola infection we have, the more chances there are for the virus to mutate in a particular way that adapts it well to living in humans, replicating in humans, and perhaps transmitting from human to human.

  

  David Quammen