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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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• My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Father
  • Color
  • Filmmaker

• I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• 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

• The attorney-client privilege is the bedrock principle of our legal system, ... The confidential nature of the attorney-client relationship is no less important in government than in every other context where it exists.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Important
  • Nature
  • Relationship

• Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Earth

• Sometimes something has a value, it has an instant quality to it, and that's all it needs to be.

  

  Erol Alkan
  • Quality
  • Value
  • Needs

• Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Live
  • Die
  • Single

• Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Wish
  • Drug
  • Motivated

• 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