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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
  • Enough
  • Literature

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

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Years
  • Old
  • Over

• 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 consider our music a catalyst, something that might spark a thought or a question.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Music
  • Question

• And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • People
  • Red
  • Blue

• I'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Honesty

• If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Freedom
  • Write
  • Musicians

• Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

  

  Rick Majerus
  • Basketball
  • Endeavor
  • Mercenary

• What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I don't really find happiness within materialistic things. Like, it's cool if I can buy myself a new car, and I think it's amazing for a week, but then the thrill is over, and I'm like, 'Oh, so I guess that wasn't really happiness.'

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Feeling
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

  

  John Burnside
  • Time
  • Live
  • Nature

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

  

  Jan Koum