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• As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Time
  • World
  • Opportunity

• I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Children
  • Family
  • Wealth

• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Action
  • Conversation

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • Same
  • Motivational

• I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Doing
  • Figure
  • Documentary

• I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Style
  • Successful

• I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Power
  • Think
  • Questions

• Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Why
  • You
  • Look

• India has a very good tradition in tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Tradition

• Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Nature
  • Peace
  • Attention

• When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Right

• I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Sports

• I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Nice
  • Rock
  • Waiting

• One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Book

• There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • People
  • Words

• Show me an alley, show me a train Show me a hobo who sleeps out in the rain And I'll show you a young man With many reasons why There but for fortune, go you or I

  

  Phil Ochs
  • Why
  • Rain

• Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Music
  • Women
  • Performers

• If you go back to the 17th century, scientists generally weren't rewarded much at all for sharing discoveries, and as a result, they conducted a lot of their research very, very secretively indeed.

  

  Michael Nielsen
  • Research
  • Result
  • Century

• I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Movie

• For the rain it raineth every day.

  

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