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The Democrats need to be confident about making their argument... and making sure that everybody knows we care about them.

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• I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Work
  • Justice
  • Singing

• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Purpose

• Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Women
  • Love
  • Job

• I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Peace
  • Question
  • Achieve

• Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Someone

• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Why
  • America
  • Government

• I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Time
  • Drama

• For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Humans

• Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!

  

  Ina Garten
  • Think
  • Never
  • Guilty

• I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Sound

• I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• When I think of my version of a role model, it's not about being the perfect Samaritan; it's just being out there and being honest and happily imperfect.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Model

• We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Myself
  • Couple
  • Person

• Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Family
  • Love
  • For Her

• It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Exercise
  • Procrastination

• It's not possible to forget pictures. Anyone who works in them thinks of them constantly.

  

  Irene Dunne

• We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.

  

  David Deida
  • Consciousness
  • Worship
  • Tolerate

• There's the instability of my attitude as an artist, the instability of our perception of the world, and the idea that with this mix, you never know exactly what's the point of view of the filmmaker. This breaks the stability of the belief that a filmmaker is somebody who has a logical relationship with his own material. These elements create this atmosphere that I find more interesting than a normal atmosphere, based only on the characters.

  

  Albert Serra
  • Attitude
  • Characters
  • Somebody

• Don't forget there are two sides to performing. Finding the truth, but you also have to be transparent enough for the audience to see it. How many times have you seen a performance and thought: 'Well, it seems to be meaning a great deal to you but it ain't coming across to me?' It is to be shared.

  

  John Hurt
  • Great
  • Truth

• Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Powerful

• I was involved in the 'reformicon' effort in 2013-2014, which was explicitly, 'We can't just Xerox Reagan.' In the spirit of Reagan, actually, we could rethink things - maybe we need to think more about job-training programs, earned income tax credit, adjust the tax code.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Job
  • Effort
  • Training

• The Democrats need to be confident about making their argument... and making sure that everybody knows we care about them.

  

  Jason Kander