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The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

George Ayittey

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• I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Think
  • Audience
  • Movies

• I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.

  

  Karl Landsteiner
  • Long
  • High
  • Constitution

• Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Literature
  • Memory
  • Down

• So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Research

• Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.

  

  Banks
  • Live
  • Thought
  • Breathe

• On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Help
  • Me
  • Day

• The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Mind
  • Voice
  • Themselves

• I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Beginning

• I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Never
  • Leader
  • Admit

• There's no real side to be on because I think it was a mess.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Real
  • Think
  • Mess

• It's a confidence booster for me to be known as a female who can take on any action, which is nice, to have that reputation, because then people know that when they hire me, I can actually do the physical stuff.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Action
  • Nice

• The European Union is here to stay.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Here
  • Stay
  • Union

• I want his children to know: wasn't anything strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with.

  

  Al Sharpton
  • Children

• In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Business

• In 2012, Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency after a four-year, constitutionally imposed hiatus. It wasn't the smoothest of transitions. To his surprise, in the run-up to his inauguration, protesters filled the streets of Moscow and other major cities to denounce his comeback.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Up
  • Comeback

• The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.

  

  Boyle Roche

• You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to over 450 auditions so I've heard 'no' a lot more than I've heard 'yes'. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Rejection
  • Cake
  • Auditions

• I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Up
  • High
  • Feel

• I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Music
  • School

• Sammy Davis, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett... their records sell in the millions; when I do it, it just trickles. But for the composer and lyricist, there's a tidy bit to be made that way, too, so I don't really mind.

  

  Anthony Newley
  • Mind

• The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

  

  George Ayittey