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Driver's licenses are a crucial national security issue.

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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Man
  • Boy
  • Before

• Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Dancer

• It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mistake
  • Silence
  • Darkness

• Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Together

• You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Children
  • Kindness
  • Skiing

• I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Like

• Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Music
  • Always
  • Hearts

• I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can't do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Justice
  • Internet
  • Devil

• I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Think
  • Always
  • Spark

• I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• In the fifth grade I discovered something I could do better than the other kids. One day, the teacher set up a bunch of chairs, and she had everyone run to the chairs and back while she timed us. I had the fastest time in the whole school!

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Friends
  • Party
  • Libertarian

• I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • People
  • Like
  • View

• If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Happy
  • You
  • Now

• When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Real
  • Book
  • Random

• One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Great
  • Focus
  • Growth

• The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Proud
  • Smart
  • Stone

• I have a hard time with scheduling, and with hunkering down and planning. That's always been a struggle for me.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Planning

• The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Distance
  • Hunger
  • Authors

• Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some; others of a moderate share that they have a great deal; but those of elegance and charm generally know the perfection of their external graces so well, that they seem to covet that flattery most which heightens the opinion of their wit and judgment.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Women
  • Opinion
  • Beauty

• If you ain't the lead dog, the view never changes.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • Dog

• Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Future
  • Drama

• Driver's licenses are a crucial national security issue.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly