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• There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Grow

• I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.'

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Different
  • Character
  • First

• When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Power
  • Moment

• I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Life
  • Know
  • Win

• The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Life
  • You
  • Capable

• Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Fool

• She forced me to become avant-garde and take my clothes off, when all I wanted was to be Tom Jones.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • She

• The individual begins that long effort as an Outsider; he may finish it as a saint.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Long
  • May
  • Effort

• I don't believe in happy endings.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Believe
  • Happy

• I love, when I'm on holiday in cities, going into church and feeling that reverence and that kind of automatic respect: the sort of magic which exists in those kind of religious temples.

  

  James Norton
  • Feeling
  • Respect
  • Church

• Opportunity makes a thief.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Opportunity

• I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • World
  • Live
  • Animal

• Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • World

• The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.

  

  Jason Segel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Power

• I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.

  

  Anna Held
  • People

• Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.

  

  Bernard Marcus
  • Survival

• The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Christ
  • Difference
  • Sacrifices

• I get particularly depressed by the way teenagers are portrayed in the media. They are massively underestimated. They are bright, intelligent people who are given less and less opportunity. They are an ignored generation.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Intelligent

• In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Idea
  • Capitalism
  • Analysis

• I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with devotion and courage to overcome. I once stood on a street in Trondheim, Norway, looking up at a statue of a Viking. There came to my mind at that time a fable of the Norsemen that when a man won a victory over another, the strength of the conquered went over into his veins. Therefore, in this sense adversity is good, for it produces in us a source of strength as we learn to conquer our weaknesses.

  

  Alvin R. Dyer
  • Strength
  • Source
  • Weaknesses

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