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To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

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• I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Australia

• Bald is the new black!

  

  Gail Porter
  • Black
  • New
  • Bald

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!

  

  Walter Huston
  • Up
  • Good
  • Man

• Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Me
  • Useful
  • Facebook

• I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • School
  • Free

• People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.

  

  Gary Peters
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• Vampires are super sexy.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Sexy
  • Vampires
  • Super

• My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • She
  • Mother
  • Born

• Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Done
  • Together

• Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Remember
  • Desire
  • Painting

• The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Important
  • Home
  • Artist

• To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was 'system,' an indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was 'industry,' indecision when right was 'caution,' and blind stubbornness when wrong, 'determination.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Determination

• If you want to be --ing individual, don’t get a tattoo. Every --er’s got one these days.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Tattoo

• The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Value

• What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Women
  • Money
  • Dumb

• I know I am no better than anyone else in this world.

  

  Frankie Muniz
  • World

• I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won't be able to do it anymore.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Life
  • Important

• Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity

• Hopefully, more and more people will begin to feel their story is somehow part of this larger story of how we're going to reshape America in a way that is less mean-spirited and more generous.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America

• Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.

  

  David Dobkin
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Space

• We may well be ashamed to tell what things we have read or heard in our day. I do not know why my news should be so trivial, - considering what one's dreams and expectations are, why the developments should be so paltry. The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Why
  • May

• To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

  

  David Sedaris