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• For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Peace

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Period

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.

  

  Becky G
  • Singing
  • Big
  • Shower

• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Care

• Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Work
  • Company
  • Performance

• I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Family
  • Wish
  • Child

• I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Name
  • Hollywood
  • Pictures

• Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • She
  • Black

• Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Kind
  • Doing
  • Pressure

• I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • American
  • Culture
  • Gangster

• Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Always

• You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Happy
  • Campers

• Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel.

  

  G. C. Berkouwer
  • Deep

• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. I really hope no one misinterprets this quote as being about masturbation.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Remember
  • Hope
  • Helping Hand

• It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

  

  Aleck Bourne
  • Mind
  • Facts
  • Uneducated

• That’s because you can’t hold something in your mind but a little while, said Jem. It’s different with grown folks, we-

  

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