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I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

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• Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Think
  • Working
  • Now

• But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Long
  • Alone
  • Week

• I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Real
  • Home

• That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Right
  • Getting
  • Too

• In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Work
  • Done
  • Green

• I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Age
  • Play
  • Mom

• There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • America
  • Day

• If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Important
  • Song

• I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Speech

• I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Children
  • Style
  • Imagination

• Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I can't see myself spending the rest of my life as a judge.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Judge

• To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.

  

  Aldous Huxley

• Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Done
  • Job
  • America

• When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by any fair standard, the holy trinity of United States social policy should also include the mortgage-interest deduction - an enormous benefit that has also become politically untouchable.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Mind

• I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.

  

  Markwayne Mullin

• When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • Women
  • Pretty

• When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Deep
  • Parent
  • Influence

• I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career.

  

  Bonnie Langford
  • Career
  • Fear

• YouTube and other sites will bring together all the diverse media which matters to you, from videos of family and friends to news, music, sports, cooking and much, much more.

  Chad Hurley
  • Music
  • Family
  • Friends

• But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

  

  William Golding
  • Forgiveness
  • Given

• I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

  

  Martin Parr