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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

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• Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Place
  • Terrorism
  • Islam

• If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • She
  • News

• I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Know
  • Cool
  • Person

• I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Time
  • Always
  • Something

• I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Son
  • Feel
  • Price

• There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Moments
  • Lot

• I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Age
  • Story
  • Homework

• There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • New

• I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Think
  • Reading

• I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Voice

• It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • American

• David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Teacher
  • Talk
  • Chef

• I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Years

• In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Great
  • Men
  • History

• For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Me
  • Universe
  • Better

• What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Heart
  • Eye

• Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

  

  DeForest Soaries
  • Life

• As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

  

  John Trumbull
  • Done
  • Trust
  • Nurse

• I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

  

  Kent Haruf
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Risk

• You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

  

  Charles Dance

• They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

  

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