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• First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Difficult
  • Need
  • Tools

• The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Reality
  • Control
  • Emotions

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Working

• Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Me
  • Role

• I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Me
  • Artist

• It's not healthy to be jealous.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Healthy
  • Jealous

• It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Great
  • High

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Know
  • Story
  • Actors

• I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Down

• 'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Star

• Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Boring
  • Elections

• Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Diversity
  • Europe
  • Itself

• I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Mind
  • Growing
  • Landscape

• You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing - in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic - that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Evil
  • Stupid

• Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • America
  • Energy
  • Creates

• Plato was a bore.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Plato

• My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Attention

• I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.

  

  John Sweeney
  • Life
  • Career
  • Lost

• The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Trying
  • Future
  • Success

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