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I will continue to stay very focused on the economy.

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• Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Dad
  • Choice
  • Finding

• The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Hands
  • Class
  • Ignorant

• Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Benefits
  • Street
  • Trees

• MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • You
  • Impact
  • Selling

• The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Country
  • Art
  • Job

• I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Me
  • Grandmother
  • Birth

• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Being
  • Glamour
  • Forbidden

• You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • People
  • Past
  • Crazy

• Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Amazing
  • Doing
  • Some

• I don't eat white breads, and I'm off dairy due to an allergic reaction and because of what it does to the body. I've learnt a lot about different foods and how the body breaks it down and what happens when we eliminate or incorporate certain foods, and it's pretty fascinating!

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Different
  • Pretty
  • Body

• All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Words
  • Wish
  • Language

• Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • People
  • Great
  • Kind

• Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Country
  • Listening
  • Enjoy

• I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Idea
  • Embrace
  • Entertainer

• The thing I love about Wisconsin is the people. We have such incredible people here. It's fun to recognize the incredible athletes and coaches and sponsors and people we have here tonight. But we also have incredible fans.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Fun
  • Fans

• It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Today
  • Funny

• If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • You
  • Team
  • Leadership

• The Trump phenomenon has a lot of really good stuff in it, the anti-elitism, the concern for America's economy in the Rust Belt, the desire to see better days for the country. That's all great stuff. Some of that stuff is Bernie Sanders stuff. The problem is that it's marbled through with xenophobia and misogyny and bigotry.

  

  Van Jones
  • Good
  • Great
  • Country

• You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • Trying
  • Why

• Ever since I was a young girl, even in school, I was always a perfectionist, and I always wanted to do my homework as soon as I got home. Everything had to be done properly.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • School
  • Done
  • Home

• The Internet lets thousands of total strangers collaborate to produce a truly hivelike result.

  

  Clive Thompson

• So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?

  

  Dennis Chavez
  • Practice

• I will continue to stay very focused on the economy.

  

  Donald Evans