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Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

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• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Time
  • Today
  • Wednesday

• It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Enemy
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Great
  • Day
  • Burden

• I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.

  

  Oliver North
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Political

• The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • People
  • Change
  • Day

• Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Great
  • Together
  • Unknown

• More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Understanding

• Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Power
  • Never
  • Personality

• Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.

  

  Daisy Bates
  • Opinions
  • Most
  • Scientific

• You can get beat any day.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • You
  • Day
  • Beat

• We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Law
  • Responsibility

• I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Art
  • Man
  • Myself

• I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Slavery

• God's knowledge extends to things not in existence, and includes also the infinite.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Knowledge

• …the British. Haughty, white, fat, ugly, by no means sympathique, cold…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Cold
  • Ugly

• Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

  

  Jennifer Esposito
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Sister

• 'Caddyshack' touched people; so did 'Tron.' 'Caddyshack' is a lifestyle, and 'Tron' is more religious, spiritual, but both are very emotional responses.

  

  Cindy Morgan
  • People
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.

  

  Maria Callas
  • Beautiful
  • Opinion

• I would have to say that Canada definitely produces the best wrestlers; I don't know why. I think Canada is a big wrestling country, and there are a lot of guys who are interested in wrestling in Canada.

  

  Chris Jericho
  • Country
  • Why
  • Wrestling

• Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Country
  • Giving

• If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Country
  • Paint
  • Fought

• Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Country
  • Comedy
  • Mean