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• We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Women
  • Home
  • Management

• On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Know

• I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Love
  • Hurt

• They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Asian
  • Barbie

• There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Long
  • Literature
  • Enough

• There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Now

• Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • War
  • Give
  • Nobody

• X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Born
  • Some People

• I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • Book
  • Always
  • First

• I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Years
  • Old
  • Over

• DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Fingers
  • DNA
  • Chemical

• I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • World
  • Blue
  • Blues

• If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Long
  • Wife
  • Always

• We have reached the bottom of the 9th inning, and now it is happening, what we normally experience at any ballpark when a visiting pitcher is so close to greatness, even the hometown fans come to root for him. He has come too far, he has journeyed too long to drop it.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Greatness

• As much as I want to help people, I had to accept the fact long ago that being stupid with money isn't illegal.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Trying

• It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Country
  • Power
  • American

• I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Sky
  • Looked

• I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

  

  Joel Edgerton

• I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

  

  Ali MacGraw
  • Remember
  • Animal

• I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playing in a band. Back then, this was something young folk did - you got your rent paid, a little bit of money to live on, and you loafed around, wrote songs, rehearsed and dreamed of playing Wembley Stadium.

  

  John Niven
  • Live
  • Money
  • Band

• When you're working a three-hour gig, how do you know when to climax? You just watch the crowd and ride the wave. If they're not feeling a song, you move on.

  

  Alexandra Richards
  • Feeling
  • Crowd
  • Move On

• We're not advertisement-driven, so we don't need personal databases.

  

  Jan Koum