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You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff.

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• Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Understanding

• I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Think
  • Media
  • YouTube

• I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Business
  • House
  • Parents

• Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Political
  • Worry
  • Tools

• Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Now

• I really don't believe in magic.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Believe
  • Magic
  • Really

• I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Think
  • Black
  • Uplifting

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Group

• I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Know
  • Dreaming
  • Expecting

• There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

  

  Sam Richards
  • United States
  • Odd
  • United

• Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Media

• I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Temptation

• People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Work
  • Faith

• For my part I think that capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable.

  

  John Maynard Keynes

• When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Good
  • Think

• Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.

  

  David Josiah Brewer
  • Life
  • Character
  • Destiny

• By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.

  

  Jason Epstein
  • Great
  • Support
  • City

• You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff.

  

  Matthew Desmond
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