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I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.

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• Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Empowerment

• We care about margins.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Care
  • About
  • Margins

• In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Best
  • Politics
  • Cards

• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Value
  • Religion
  • Islam

• Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Government
  • Problems
  • Carry

• I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • End

• At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Things
  • Understand

• Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Successful
  • First

• Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Death
  • Change

• I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Will

• When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • True
  • Feeling

• I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • World
  • America

• The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • America
  • High
  • Soul

• As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Great
  • Growth
  • Globalization

• The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • House
  • Action
  • Intelligence

• Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Next

• Even as we speak, the exchanges of information are under way related to the activities of different extremists and terrorist organizations, including in Afghanistan

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Different
  • Speak
  • Activities

• I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.

  

  George A. Romero
  • People

• 'At least we can put a little sense into life.''I don’t know whether we do or whether we find what was always there,' he replied. 'Nor do I care greatly. To me, the important thing is that the purpose-order, beauty, spirit, whatever you want to call it-does exist.'

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Purpose

• I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Different
  • Reading