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My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

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• I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Food
  • Universe

• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Home
  • Football
  • Try

• You must prune dead or dying wood.

  

  Warren Giles
  • You
  • Dying
  • Wood

• I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Everyone
  • Terrorism
  • Hamas

• It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Important
  • Start

• I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Work
  • Force
  • Directors

• There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

  

  O. Henry
  • American
  • Day
  • Thanksgiving

• I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Quality
  • Care
  • Loved

• It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Think
  • Earth
  • Gift

• I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • Music
  • Song
  • Write

• Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Change
  • Simple

• Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Time
  • Black

• The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Importance

• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Losing

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Country
  • Band
  • Name

• In the age of activism that is clearly not going away, it would seem that some form of engagement from directors with shareholders - rather than directors simply taking their cues from management - would go a long way toward helping boards work on behalf of all shareholders rather just the most vocal.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Age

• Whate’er he did was done with so much ease,In him alone 't was natural to please.

  

  John Dryden
  • Done
  • Alone

• I could never really figure out why people would live in a kibbutz. I'm such a city girl.

  

  Anat Cohen
  • People
  • Live
  • Why

• There are women who literally squeeze a baby out of their bodies or get cut open in major surgery, have a human being, the next generation of the human race pulled from their bodies, and within a couple of weeks have to go back to work, because if they don't, they can't pay their bills. Something's wrong with that.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Work
  • Women
  • Couple

• South Sudan has faced numerous challenges, which include professionalising the security sector, establishing ministries and parliamentary structures with the appropriate capacity for policy making and oversight, as well as improving community safety and access to justice.

  

  Miroslav Lajcak
  • Community
  • Challenges
  • Appropriate

• My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

  

  Douglass North
  • Work
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