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• In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Important
  • Money
  • Day

• There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Learned
  • Grateful

• I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Up
  • Me
  • Passion

• In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for 'FishbowlNY,' a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • America
  • Daily
  • Media

• Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Violence
  • First
  • Refuge

• Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Faith
  • Desire

• The homegrown terrorists are the most significant because any fighter returning from Syria to the United States would likely be identified and detected by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Law
  • Intelligence

• I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Songs
  • Doors
  • Sang

• I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Work
  • Healthy
  • I Can

• Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Feelings
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Lot
  • Western
  • Influences

• For how long is it a duty to study the Law? To the day of death.

  

  Maimonides
  • Long
  • Death
  • Law

• There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

  

  Marie Curie
  • Truth

• The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Art

• Not from without us, only from within, Comes or can ever come upon us light Whereby the soul keeps ever truth in sight. No truth, no strength, no comfort man may win, No grace for guidance, no release from sin, Save of his own soul's giving.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • May
  • Truth
  • Soul

• I have a sweet tooth the size of Connecticut. It's a problem.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Sweet

• But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • History

• Our logo for Lanvin is a mother and a daughter. I've always said, 'It's not a lion, and it's not a horse. It's a mother and a daughter.' I find the logo very emotional.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Mother
  • Emotional
  • Daughter

• Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation’s traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.

  

  Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
  • Cultures
  • Traditions
  • Liberalism

• Guys would take runs at me even if I didn't have the puck. On one occasion my coach told me that the other team were told to hit number 21 as hard as they could the first period, so we switched jerseys.

  

  Cammi Granato
  • Guy
  • Team
  • Running

• Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Music
  • Live
  • Money

• If a future U.S. president were to refuse to defend an ally under attack, NATO would lose all credibility.

  

  Jeanne Shaheen
  • Future

• It is true that I have not come on the Mayflower but I came as fast as I could.

  

  Anton Cermak
  • Come
  • Fast
  • Mayflower

• Coats of bouclé, jacquard and cashmere;cartouche and tweed, all silver shot -and everything that could remind youof how easy I was not.

  

  Joanna Newsom