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• In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • End
  • Dreams

• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Children
  • Grow

• Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Me
  • Talk
  • Conspiracy

• All my life I have fought corruption.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Corruption

• Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.

  

  Young Thug
  • You
  • Rap
  • Brains

• People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nature
  • Know
  • Miracles

• Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Paris

• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
  • Forward

• I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Fight
  • Working
  • Hard

• The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • World
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Know
  • Author

• I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Job

• My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Family
  • Support
  • Crazy

• I used to hate performing in front of anybody, but I was forced to sing in front of family, at family gatherings. Then it slowly developed, and I started to love it.

  

  Fleur East
  • Family
  • Hate
  • Gatherings

• If, by one determined purpose, the hearts of all the graduates, the officials, and the men of China were united, our country would rest upon a great rock, and we could defy the world to overthrow us. To attain this object, it is necessary first that every man should fulfill his duty to his parents and elders. The country would then be at peace.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • True
  • Fun

• There will be many who will eagerly and with great care and solicitude follow up a thing, which, if they only knew its malignity, would always terrify them. Of those men, who, the older they grow, the more avaricious they become, whereas, having but little time to stay, they should become more liberal.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • People

• In 'Windtalkers,' the director John Woo is meticulous in melding his own intimate style into the cliches of a large-scale war movie, paying homage to all the tired conventions of the genre. But it's an honor that these cliches don't deserve.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • War
  • Movie
  • Style

• There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.

  

  Elizabeth Bibesco
  • Independent
  • Pet

• Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.

  

  David Hoffman
  • Problem
  • Economic
  • Gorbachev

• Smarmy, plastic, oily, greasy, unctuous, shallow, superficial, old-fashioned, superannuated, crap

  

  Bob Monkhouse