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'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

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• Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Live
  • Me
  • Difference

• When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Children
  • Future
  • Humanity

• I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

  

  Val Guest
  • Job
  • Me
  • Comedy

• It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Song

• I'm from Southampton.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Southampton

• I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Children
  • Way
  • Ideas

• In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fear

• I've had people appear in my life that have helped me. I had more fun. I approached it thinking how would Jack Nicholson, "How would he do it?" So that's really what I did was I created this Gremlin character. So now people come up and they say 'Oh The Exorcist!'.. and I'm like "Did you see Repossessed?" They say either no or yes or whatever, and I say look at this, have a laugh, and then go back and look at a masterpiece .

  

  Linda Blair
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Giving
  • Health
  • Care

• It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Help
  • Words
  • English

• Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happy
  • Soul
  • Peace

• To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Action
  • Successful
  • Sufficient

• I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Bad
  • Husband
  • I Think

• I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

  

  Cecily Brown
  • Painting
  • Movement
  • Illusion

• I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Different
  • May
  • Sex

• We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of near East....The first hospital in Paris, Les Quinze-vingt, was founded by Louis IX after his return from the crusade 1254-1260.

  

  George Sarton
  • Believe
  • Reason
  • Inspired

• Everything can happen in the playoffs.

  

  Red Auerbach
  • Happens
  • Playoffs

• 'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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