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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

• Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

  

  Walter Murch
  • View
  • Point Of View
  • Puzzle

• I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each other than telling a story through images. Of course, you're trying to do both. And there are some people who are brilliant at it, but I don't consider myself to be particularly good at it. My mind gets into a verbal mode.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

  

  Plato
  • Men
  • Love
  • Happiness

• Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.

  

  Mark Roberts
  • War
  • Violence

• I remember when I told my mom that I wanted to come out, and my mom was a little hesitant. She was saying, 'Are you sure? Do you think that might affect your scores?' or, 'Is it something that you think that you need to do?' And I told her, 'I don't care. It's important to me.'

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Important
  • She
  • Remember

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

  

  George Ayittey