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• I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Like
  • Never
  • Cold

• Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Reality
  • Professional

• I'm curvy.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Curvy

• Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Character

• If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • You
  • Start
  • Trouble

• I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Love
  • Career
  • Friend

• Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

  

  Jack Horner
  • See
  • Birds
  • Colorful

• If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Fail
  • Chemistry
  • Were

• I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Travel
  • Working
  • Heels

• I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Crazy
  • Right
  • Wrong

• Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Different
  • Women
  • Family

• What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Group

• People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Eyes
  • I Can

• Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Important
  • Security
  • Israel

• Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Success
  • Winning
  • Automobile

• You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about. He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Men
  • Enough
  • Smart

• When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Law
  • Bars

• As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Business
  • American
  • History

• Most of the time, you roll them around from one spot in the garage to another and just admire them.

  

  Jeff Long
  • Time
  • Admire
  • Garage

• I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Remember
  • Speak
  • Forget

• You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

  

  Ray Liotta
  • Independent
  • Movies
  • Bigger

• Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

  

  Washington Allston
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