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I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.

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• Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Help
  • Peace
  • Collaboration

• It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Desire
  • Play

• I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Like
  • Reach

• I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • People
  • Myself
  • Week

• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Style
  • Like

• Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Real
  • Ideas

• As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Mom

• I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Turning
  • Hammer

• Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Live
  • Nation
  • Ticket

• I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Successful
  • Run
  • Content

• All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • Life
  • Change
  • Violence

• In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • American
  • Better
  • Healing

• For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Live
  • Love

• Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • American
  • Always
  • Legacy

• I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Always

• I hate hearing from anyone ever saying, 'Oh, you only make clothes for models. That's so annoying,' because it just never, never is the case. Our top-selling size is probably a 12.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Hate
  • Annoying

• I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

  

  Bode Miller
  • Sports

• My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don't really care if it's a Shiite, a Sunni, a Kurd, or a Turkoman that's providing them security as long as that force treats them with respect.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Long
  • Experience

• It's such a tough business. And once people see you a certain way, it's really hard for them to change their minds about you.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • People
  • Business

• Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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  • Women
  • Education

• I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.

  

  Penn Jillette
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