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• The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Religion
  • Idea
  • Scripture

• In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Job
  • Opinion

• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Man
  • Intelligent
  • Down

• I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Time
  • Long
  • Drug

• I have my dad's shape. No booty.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Dad
  • Shape
  • Booty

• I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Question
  • Go
  • Meeting

• The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Great
  • Women

• I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hero

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Great
  • Death
  • Survival

• I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • Small
  • Me

• Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Free
  • Day
  • Fighting

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • God
  • Blessings

• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Security
  • Social
  • Original

• Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.

  

  Agnes Denes
  • Attention
  • Direction
  • Works

• I'm not against Flash, and I love the work that people such as Joshua Davis do.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • People
  • Work

• Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people, as to myself, it is just 'home'. It is all these things but one thing - it is never dull.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Home
  • Utopia
  • Mystic

• If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

  

  John Bruton
  • Financial

• The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • People
  • United States

• It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out on the edge of the prairie...

  

  Garrison Keillor
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