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Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.

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• I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Think
  • Blessed

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Funny
  • Air

• Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Important
  • Age
  • Matter

• In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • School
  • Africa
  • Secondary

• I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Me
  • Never
  • Producer

• You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Know
  • Government

• Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • History
  • Rights
  • Greatest

• Et sane arduum debet esse, quod adeo raro reperitur. Qui enim posset fieri, si salus in promptu esset et sine magno labore reperiri posset, ut ab omnibus fere negligeretur? Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia, quam rara sunt.

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• Bismarck traveling in an open carriage through the green valley of Hofgastein to Salzburg with Vortragender Rat Robert von Keudell and Geheimrat Heinrich Abeken on 18 August 1865 after the Gastein Convention had been signed on 14 August 1865 (as reported by Keudell). Bismarck: Die gesammelten Werke, Band 7 Gespräche, 1924, p. 101

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Die
  • Band
  • Green

• Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

  

  Edward Gibbon

• Born with them-born with them : all alike ! No pleasure equal to the pleasure of tormenting, to a woman.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Why

• Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

  

  Charles Palliser
  • People

• I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Passion
  • Listening

• One of the things I love about the character development in 'Power' is Courtney A. Kemp's subversive use of stereotype.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Character
  • Power

• Few men are killed by bayonets, but many are scared by them. Having the bayonet fixed makes our men want to close. Only the threat to close will defeat a determined enemy.

  

  George S. Patton
  • Enemy
  • Defeat
  • Threat

• The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.

  

  Ian Chappell
  • Positive
  • Lasts
  • England

• I don't like politicians who vacillate.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Politicians
  • Vacillate

• My best year was probably 1948, and after that, it's been downhill for me.

  

  Dennis Farina

• The Holy Supper is kept, indeed,In whatso we share with another's need,-Not that which we give, but what we share,-For the gift without the giver is bare;Who bestows himself with his alms feeds three,-Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

  

  James Russell Lowell

• Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.

  

  Jo Cox