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• According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Army
  • Soviet

• People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Reality

• I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Message

• We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Look

• I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Idea

• I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Professional
  • Friendship

• I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Up
  • History
  • Funny

• I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Pain
  • My Life

• Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Energy
  • Resources
  • Most

• I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Play
  • Movies

• I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Night
  • Religious
  • Summer

• The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Need
  • Bread
  • Hood

• The most important thing is to stay positive.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Important
  • Positive
  • Stay

• I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Working

• If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • New
  • Read
  • Fiction

• I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Single Thing

• 'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Technology

• I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Success
  • Learned
  • Give

• Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics

• Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

  

  Joseph Hume
  • Demand
  • Produce
  • Countries

• I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Good
  • Book

• The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.

  

  Robert Palmer
  • Up
  • Music
  • Black

• Itch to read, scratch to understand.

  

  Peter Greenaway