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For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

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• If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • School
  • Education
  • Better

• I aspire only to silence.

  

  Felix Feneon
  • Silence
  • Only
  • Aspire

• The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • Same
  • Influence

• Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Suffering
  • Emotional
  • Poverty

• How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Important
  • Long
  • Live

• Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Act

• I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Taxes
  • How
  • Fees

• I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Want
  • End
  • Destroy

• Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Free
  • Know
  • Slavery

• I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Professional

• I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Time
  • House
  • Singing

• I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I'm a New Yorker at heart. A stroll through Central Park, a visit to the MET, a show on Broadway. There is no other city like it in the world!

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • She
  • Business
  • Night

• I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Believe
  • Reality

• The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Perfect
  • Expression
  • Award

• I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Stupid
  • Smart
  • Ridiculously

• If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.

  

  Andrew VanWyngarden MGMT
  • Conscious
  • Depressed
  • Cynical

• More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

  

  Brian Lamb
  • People
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.

  

  Danilo Kis
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Memories

• For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali