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Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

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• I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Business
  • Kings

• The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • American
  • Rest

• During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dream
  • Black
  • Champion

• Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • People
  • Art
  • Acting

• I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Me
  • King
  • Lion

• Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Ambition
  • Meaningful

• Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Knowledge
  • Sometimes
  • Need

• I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Name
  • Changed

• I love dressing up.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Love
  • Dressing

• You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

  

  Edie Adams
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Leave

• Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Regardless
  • Legislation

• I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in the water bottle that I carry around with me or drink a cup of hot water with lemon. It's a natural diuretic.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Think
  • Me
  • Water

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Words

• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Free
  • Poverty
  • Capable

• Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity. You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square - But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity's not there!

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • May
  • Monster

• Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Mind
  • Future
  • Education

• A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Lie
  • Liar
  • Often

• Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the true name that tells of its history and people and lands and weather and . . . everything?

  

  Karen Lord
  • People
  • Important
  • Humans

• Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

  

  Mojo Nixon
  • Sound
  • Monster
  • Universal