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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Lost
  • Brother
  • Old

• The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.

  

  OMI
  • Song
  • Quality
  • Meaningful

• My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Me
  • Never

• There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Seem

• My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Weird

• Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Know
  • Embrace

• I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Inspired

• Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Job
  • Day
  • Best

• Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple hero moments, killing with a lethal bow and arrow along the way.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Action
  • Moments
  • Couple

• I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

  

  Edmund White
  • Imagination
  • Alive
  • Details

• The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Government
  • Organization
  • Leaving

• Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Experience
  • Thankful
  • Taught

• Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Life
  • Want
  • Yourself

• At the end of the day, though, there are a huge number of considerations that our management team go through before accepting any project - checking out the license is just one of them.

  

  Andrew Oliver
  • Team
  • Management

• My father once discovered that one cannot 'walk off' gangrene.

  

  James Nicoll
  • Father

• Journalists love to show their compassion.

  

  Bernard Goldberg
  • Compassion
  • Journalists

• The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

  

  Quentin Bell
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Lies

• Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.

  

  Jacob Lew