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Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more.

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• You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Care
  • Waiting

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• What really matters is what's on the inside.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Really
  • Inside
  • Matters

• When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Wife
  • Serious
  • Divorce

• Be who you are and be that well.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Well
  • Who

• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

  Becky G
  • God
  • Money
  • Kids

• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Forty
  • Sandwich
  • Ham

• I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • May
  • Think

• My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Father

• I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Happy
  • Like
  • Film

• And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Kids
  • Cool

• Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Only
  • Saints
  • Acceptable

• In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Being
  • Nation
  • Unfortunate

• Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Sometimes
  • Will
  • Make

• Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Writing
  • Confidence

• But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Writing
  • Idea
  • Working

• You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Change
  • End
  • Understand

• Caravaggio was a tormented, defiant, bisexual, angry young man - a maestro who looked nothing like a maestro.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Angry
  • Bisexual

• What keeps me going is that young people still want to see me.

  

  Don Rickles
  • People

• Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Real
  • Respect

• Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more.

  

  Jan Egeland
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