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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

• 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

• If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.

  

  Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Poverty

• Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.

  

  James C. Collins
  • Opportunity
  • Financial

• Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • May
  • Single
  • Dying

• When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Good
  • Music
  • God

• I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.

  

  LaToya London
  • Great
  • American
  • Career

• I think art can take ordinary things and show them to you like it's the first time you've ever seen them. And you realize that even ordinary things aren't really ordinary at all -Salma

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Art
  • First
  • Show

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