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India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

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• I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Trying
  • Eye

• Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • World
  • School
  • Day

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • Become
  • Interview

• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Love
  • Want
  • Find

• Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Problem
  • Understanding
  • Easy

• My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Growing
  • Cash
  • Asset

• I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Power
  • Party

• And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Party
  • Progress
  • Politics

• I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Small
  • Waiting

• The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

  

  Edmund White
  • Different
  • School
  • Past

• I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Death
  • Style
  • Bored

• Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!

  

  Carl Jung
  • Long

• The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, 'My country, right or wrong.' In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

  

  Carl Schurz
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• Why the hell do we make such a big deal out of things that shouldn't be a big deal?

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • Why

• I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Night

• I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Energy
  • Couple

• I always thought I was going to be a professional horse rider because I rode horses competitively from zero to 17 years old.

  

  Louise Wilson
  • Professional
  • Horse

• Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Popular

• Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.

  

  Emil Ferris
  • Different

• If I'm wearing a vintage '50s-style dress, I'll wear some funky, wild shoes by a contemporary designer.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Style
  • Shoes

• Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

  

  Euripides
  • Faults
  • Burden
  • True Evil

• India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

  

  Hu Shih
  • Soldier
  • Dominated