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• Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Present
  • Identity

• I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.

  

  RaeLynn
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • People
  • Work
  • Teach

• People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Buddha

• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Live
  • Friends

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Up
  • Taxes

• In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • New
  • New York

• George Bush doesn't care about black people.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Black
  • Care

• Any real Colts fan cannot abide the Denver Broncos and John Elway!

  

  Karen Handel
  • Real
  • Fan
  • Denver

• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Words
  • Years

• The words I overuse are all adverbs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Words

• I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Funny
  • Me

• Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Money
  • Success

• Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • House
  • You

• 'Strong Island' has been a labor of love and dedication on the part of so many people, that it's just an incredible recognition to be honored. And to be the first trans director - and, I believe, the first African-American trans director - to be nominated for an Academy Award is incredibly, incredibly special to me.

  

  Yance Ford
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• When I do wear heels, I prefer to only wear them to dinner, where I'll be sitting down most of the time.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Time

• We've always had a love for other places outside the US. I would be right with him. Now that Michael's been vindicated, we all have to be careful... you never know what someone's plotting and planning.

  

  Jermaine Jackson The Jacksons
  • Planning

• Canada was built from its very beginnings on the belief that public leadership in the economy and on social issues would be as effective and cheap as anything done by the private sector.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • Done
  • Leadership

• You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown, 'Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud.' They helped black people figure out how to navigate what was a very treacherous place in America for them.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • People
  • Music
  • America

• Real people are involved, and they can be hurt by your words. We are not tabloid journalism, we are an encyclopedia.

  

  Jimmy Wales
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