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As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

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• If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Political

• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Change
  • Progress
  • Human

• I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Like
  • Historical
  • Novels

• If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Up
  • World
  • Responsibility

• The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Leadership
  • Employees

• If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Food
  • Cold
  • Sick

• You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Party
  • Trump

• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Communication

• I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Game
  • Know
  • Angry

• The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • High
  • Gifts
  • Wicked

• Only recently have I been introduced to the gym and heavy weightlifting and things like that. Before that, when I grew up, I just did a lot of gymnastics and dance. I had more of an athletic background, but nothing where I was in the gym or using any kind of weights.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Dance

• Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Energy
  • Resources
  • Dependent

• India may be the soul of world cricket, but IPL is its commercial heart. Just as 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' changed the ground rules for quiz shows by injecting a massive dose of money into the equation, IPL has changed the dynamics of the cricket economy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • World
  • Money
  • Heart

• When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.

  

  Feist
  • World
  • Friends
  • Brother

• I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

  

  Flavor Flav
  • House
  • Boy
  • Fire

• The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

  

  Edmund White
  • Different
  • School
  • Past

• Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Why
  • Violence

• How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

  

  Marc Platt
  • Good

• I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Christ
  • Teaching
  • Complacency

• Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.

  

  David Soul
  • Work
  • Night

• I got to learn to surf.

  

  Sheryl Crow

• Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

  

  Peter McWilliams

• As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

  

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