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• Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Past
  • Islam
  • Percent

• You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mother
  • You
  • Know

• 'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Kind
  • Guilty

• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Country
  • Power
  • Economic

• I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Game
  • Lost

• There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Positive
  • Influence

• The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Very

• When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Work
  • Looking

• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Remember

• My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Man
  • Rest
  • Name

• Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Bad
  • Hope
  • Best

• Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Happy
  • Win
  • saw

• I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Long
  • Look
  • I Can

• A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Band
  • Face

• Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Good
  • Education
  • Quality

• I like to keep my hair and makeup routines easy and simple on race days.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Simple
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever.

  

  James Gleick
  • English

• There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

  

  Emil Cioran

• Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

  

  John Crowe Ransom
  • History
  • Free