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I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.

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• The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Important
  • Strong

• My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • You
  • Someone
  • Grandma

• I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Years
  • Own
  • Boat

• Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Become

• The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Power
  • Like
  • Liberal

• Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • Work
  • Design

• I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Enjoy
  • Now
  • Used

• Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Government
  • Bureaucracy

• I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Happy
  • Dangers
  • Midst

• If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • You
  • Find
  • Compliment

• I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers' problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Government
  • Security

• The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Body
  • Authority

• I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Life
  • Live
  • Myself

• No one ever wanted to see it as anything other than a boring play about a middle-aged man having a mid-life crisis. I think it’s about rather more than that - or maybe it’s not. Maybe that’s exactly what it is about.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Life

• Those feminists who say that masculinity is about men believing they can batter women display the deepest ignorance possible about men and masculinity.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Ignorance

• It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Up
  • Ignorance
  • Intuition

• If religion were the only durable foundation for morality you would suspect atheists to be really badly behaved. You would go to a group like the National Academy of Sciences. These are the most elite scientists, 93 percent of whom reject the idea of God. You would expect these guys to be raping and killing and stealing with abandon.

  

  Sam Harris
  • God

• A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Understand
  • Illusions

• Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Children
  • Family
  • Mother`s

• I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Die

• I appreciate a lot of singer-songwriters that the normal person doesn't, but I feel like everyone thoroughly enjoys an Ed Sheeran show.

  

  Jacob Whitesides

• I think when you look around this league, so much is scripted. And not scripted in a sense that the league is scripted, but when guys talk, it's like, 'Say this. Yeah, come out and say that.' Like, nah, I'm not doing that. I'm going to say what's on my mind. I'm going to say what's on my heart. It's just genuine speaking.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.

  

  Phil Klay