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I never wanted to be a part of planet Earth, but I am compelled to be here, so anything I do for this planet is because the Master-Creator of the Universe is making me do it. I am of another dimension. I am on this planet because people need me.

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• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Business
  • You
  • Politics

• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Way
  • Government
  • Tyranny

• I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Up
  • Done
  • Past

• We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Feel

• I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Thinking
  • Door

• Moore's new book, Dude, Where's My Country?, contains ten chapters of fulminations convincing the convinced. However, Moore does include one chapter on how to argue with a conservative. As if. Approached by someone like Michael Moore, a conservative would drop a quarter in Moore's Starbucks cup and hurriedly walk away.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Book

• Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!To all the sensual world proclaim,One crowded hour of glorious lifeIs worth an age without a name.

  

  Walter Scott
  • World
  • Age

• I'm all for putting money back into the black community, who white people have been stealing from for years.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Money
  • Black

• Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

  

  Carolina Herrera

• My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

  

  Douglass North
  • Work
  • Live
  • Done

• 'Crazy Rich Asians' may be fiction, but given the situation I grew up in, I've had an unparalleled view into the very real world it depicts.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• We have made a full frontal attack on corruption. The question is whether we can address the question of governance in developing countries and, particularly, corruption.

  

  James Wolfensohn
  • Question

• They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

  

  Ama Ata Aidoo

• In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.

  

  Luis de Guindos
  • Long
  • High

• You learn a lot about a person when you work together.

  

  Alexis Denisof
  • Work
  • Together

• Against Novak, it's really tough for me to play, I mean, because he doesn't give me any time. I don't really like to play against him because he has a game style which doesn't fit me at all.

  

  Dominic Thiem
  • Time
  • Game
  • Style

• It's what every writer needs: a daybed.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Needs
  • Writer
  • Every

• Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Earth
  • Passion
  • Courage

• Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Fire

• What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

  

  Helen Keller
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Joy

• I started my career because if I'd have done anything else, I would regret it. I truly feel this career chose me more than I chose it. I would say that it's for something greater than me with a little of the creative fulfillment that comes with it splashed in there.

  

  Anthony Ramos
  • Career
  • Fulfillment
  • Chose

• I never wanted to be a part of planet Earth, but I am compelled to be here, so anything I do for this planet is because the Master-Creator of the Universe is making me do it. I am of another dimension. I am on this planet because people need me.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Earth
  • Needs
  • Masters