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...he had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his 'Zen' method of navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.

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• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

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• New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
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• We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.

  

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• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

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• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

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• Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

  

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• I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

  

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• I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

  

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• Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Health
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• You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Government
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• I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

  

  Jack Lew
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• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  

  Patricia Arquette
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• Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

  

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• My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
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• Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

  

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• I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

  

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• Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

  

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• There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

  

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• The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

  

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• I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

  

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• Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.

  

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• ...he had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his 'Zen' method of navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.

  

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