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Where Republicans encourage popular myths about taxes, spending, and climate change, Democrats tend to stoke our fantasies about the sustainability of entitlement spending as well as about the cost of new programs.

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• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Appearance

• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Together
  • Me
  • Play

• I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • People
  • Words
  • Language

• The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Moral
  • Story
  • Temporary

• Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Pretty
  • Hot
  • Too

• When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Conscious

• I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Country
  • Real
  • Success

• Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Leather

• I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Real
  • Job
  • Got

• What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Person
  • Feel
  • Balance

• My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Myself

• The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Music
  • Job
  • Attention

• 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

• The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Legal

• Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Work
  • Home
  • Myself

• A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Live
  • Why
  • Reality

• It wasn't until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten Years After, but in another way, it was the beginning of the end.

  

  Alvin Lee
  • People
  • Movie
  • Beginning

• I'm probably not going to be popular with the fighters with this one, but my biggest problem is guys playing it safe. I understand it from a coach's standpoint and a manager's standpoint. I understand why you'd want to play it safe and want to win the fight, win every fight. I get it.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Why
  • Popular

• If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Different
  • Nature

• The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

  

  Peter Stuyvesant
  • Small

• Where Republicans encourage popular myths about taxes, spending, and climate change, Democrats tend to stoke our fantasies about the sustainability of entitlement spending as well as about the cost of new programs.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
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