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We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.

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• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Name
  • Down
  • Chair

• I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Learning

• My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Black
  • Me
  • Capitalist

• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Think
  • Political
  • Party

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • People
  • Need
  • Tool

• Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Playing
  • Musical
  • Group

• I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Good
  • Great
  • Heart

• When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Night
  • Single
  • Myself

• I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Real
  • Know
  • Water

• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Willing

• I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Money
  • Birthday
  • Bank

• Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Feeling
  • Own
  • Average

• I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Mother
  • Food
  • Birthday

• When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Great
  • America
  • Kings

• Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Great
  • Future
  • Energy

• I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Voice
  • Lucky
  • Rhythm

• My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Parents
  • Far
  • Far Away

• People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Lost
  • Reading

• I'm obsessed with the Fenty beauty line. It's like, finally, women of color get good makeup.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Color

• Trump would represent turmoil - unless he changed, unless he said, 'Now that I got to be president, I'm gonna be normal.'

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Trump

• I want you to appreciate what you're up against. You will have to succeed where multitudes have failed. You'll have to accomplish something that the mightiest wizard in the history of Lyrian didn't dare to attempt.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • History
  • Succeed
  • Appreciate

• It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Free
  • Freedom

• We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.

  

  Alice Mattison
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