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• When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Child

• It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Crazy
  • Religious
  • Degree

• I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Sports
  • Aggressive
  • Leads

• I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Money
  • Learn
  • Cook

• I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Technology
  • Compassion

• There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • American
  • Strong
  • Community

• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Country
  • Prove
  • United

• I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Great
  • Rock
  • Promise

• I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Believe
  • Opportunity

• 'There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. ... There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.'

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Today

• If you don't like the people, you're just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy minus some emotional backbone.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Emotional

• Including my nine years as a student, the majority of my life has been at Hokkaido University. After my retirement from the university in 1994, I served at two private universities in Okayama Prefecture - Okayama University of Science and Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts - before retiring from university work in 2002.

  

  Akira Suzuki
  • Life
  • Work
  • Science

• I believe everything in moderation. But breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there.

  

  Martina McBride
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Breakfast

• I have always loved maps.

  

  Ken Jennings

• I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Music

• Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.

  

  Walker Evans
  • People
  • Work
  • Beginning

• I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Power
  • Science
  • Religious

• I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Journey
  • Common
  • Sharp

• My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Pressure
  • Gain
  • Civil Rights

• I'm a fan of Bill Hicks. He did things that no other stand up did at the time. He was making fun of religion, at that time it was a lot harder to say those things in the States than it was here. To slag off Christianity and fundamentalist Christians, and to be pro drugs and anti gun in the deep south, that's a big ask. And he did that and made it funny. Bill Hicks was able to say things that he really thought, and he managed to make those thoughts funny without a care if it antagonised people.

  

  Ed Byrne
  • Care
  • Religion
  • Christianity

• Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Pretty
  • City
  • Gorgeous

• It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Praise
  • Nurse