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Sit ergo nobis orator quem constituimus is qui a M. Catone finitur vir bonus dicendi peritus, verum, id quod et ille posuit prius et ipsa natura potius ac maius est, utique vir bonus.

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• The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Connection
  • Mystery
  • Between

• I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • City
  • Always
  • Changing

• We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Words

• I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Country
  • Always
  • Potential

• The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• You're one of the most natural, great singers I've heard in a long time.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Business
  • Help

• And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Mother
  • Today
  • Success

• With my dad coming from a theatre tradition, there was a lot of preparation before auditions. Not just in terms of saying the lines correctly but a process of entering into what it was all about.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Dad
  • Theatre
  • Saying

• I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • People
  • Know
  • Shy

• It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • You
  • Two

• Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Night
  • Reality
  • End

• I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Home
  • Job
  • Guy

• I had been pursuing a Ph.D. in political science when my National Guard unit was sent to Iraq. Eight months into our deployment, in November 2004, a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents tore through the pilot's side of the Blackhawk helicopter I was flying.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Political
  • Science
  • Flying

• Power to the peaceful.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Power
  • Peaceful

• But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Matter
  • Down
  • Broadway

• We can watch every time someone looks at a profile. Do they choose to send that person a message? We can look at every message that's sent, and we can determine, was that message replied to or not.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Time
  • Look
  • Choose

• I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Real

• The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to feed people.

  

  Laurie Colwin
  • People
  • Home

• For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Great
  • Effort

• I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Uncomfortable
  • Spiders

• Sit ergo nobis orator quem constituimus is qui a M. Catone finitur vir bonus dicendi peritus, verum, id quod et ille posuit prius et ipsa natura potius ac maius est, utique vir bonus.

  

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