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The 1500 m. record was considered impossible to break.

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• Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Peace
  • Better
  • Nothing

• The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Band
  • Best

• Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Government

• Class is more important than a game.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Important
  • Game
  • Class

• There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.

  

  Sada Thompson
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Always

• I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.

  

  Iman
  • Woman
  • Color
  • Frustration

• Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Kind
  • Better
  • Boat

• When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Dream
  • Single

• I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Change
  • Model
  • Audience

• Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Food

• 'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Live Life

• It starts with campaign finance reform.

  

  Zack Space
  • Reform
  • Finance
  • Campaign

• If compelled to indicate my religion on an immigration blank, I might be tempted to put down the word 'Taoist,' to the amazement of the customs officer who probably never heard of it.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Immigration

• To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • History
  • Science

• I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

  

  Joan Allen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Struggle

• If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Stop

• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Good
  • Person
  • Impossible

• I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Real

• I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. 'You're in theater but you can play football?'

  

  Dennis Haysbert
  • Believe
  • Team
  • Football

• I'm always astounded that people know who I am and what I do. I still have a lot of anonymity and that's good. I don't get bothered in restaurants and stuff like that. But when I'm at events that are really geared toward animation fans, they know who I am. And I'm so very pleased and so flattered by it. People are extremely complimentary to me, and that only encourages me to continue to do more really good work. I get paid by the studios, but I know I work for the fans.

  

  Andrea Romano
  • Work
  • Fans
  • Animation

• The 1500 m. record was considered impossible to break.

  

  Genzebe Dibaba