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		You know, in China, they say, come on over, we'll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents, but the reality is that they are aggressively trying to take our jobs. Every other country is. They know that to have a middle class, you have to make things.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Debbie Stabenow 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				B. F. Skinner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pat Barker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barack Obama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fannie Farmer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Forest Whitaker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylor Lautner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dana Perino 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Olga Korbut 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Famke Janssen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taya Kyle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Constance Wu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Andy Rooney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first - it's easy to find when you're looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don't care who you are! I know we're all pieces of the same thing - I go for that common light because I know it's in all of us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dolly Parton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Butler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alicia Sacramone 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You know, in China, they say, come on over, we'll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents, but the reality is that they are aggressively trying to take our jobs. Every other country is. They know that to have a middle class, you have to make things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Debbie Stabenow