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Max Bialystock: I'm wearing a cardboard belt!

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• China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • People
  • Help
  • Best

• We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Children
  • High
  • Beautiful

• I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Great
  • Know
  • Proud

• The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Age
  • Yourself
  • Curiosity

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Growing
  • Doing
  • Disability

• The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Generation

• How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Men
  • Man
  • Victory

• All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

  

  Xenophon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Often
  • Analogy
  • Misleading

• I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Design
  • Start

• I think, as a woman in action in the business, you would be stupid not to express interest. Any female action role that presents itself as an opportunity I would throw myself at!

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Action

• We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

  

  Earl Warren
  • May
  • Know
  • Story

• Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Blood

• Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Fashion
  • Media
  • Influential

• When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Career
  • Reality

• History breaks down in images not into stories.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • History

• Whatever happens to me from now on, I can't ever imagine wanting to distance myself from The X Factor, or having a bad word to say about it, because the show opened doors for me that had never opened before.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Bad
  • Distance

• I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic revolution, but a rhythmic revolution.

  

  Stefon Harris
  • Different
  • Revolution
  • Jazz

• Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Band
  • Risk
  • Possible

• I believe potential is a dangerous word; it can be used for anybody. I don't want people to always say, 'He has the potential to be good.' Or, 'He has a couple of years to go.' I want somebody to say, 'Damn, that's a good tight end.' Period.

  

  Antonio Gates
  • Dangerous
  • Used
  • Potential

• Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Science

• A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

  

  John Lothrop Motley
  • Power
  • Rest
  • Gold

• Max Bialystock: I'm wearing a cardboard belt!

  

  Mel Brooks