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• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
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• There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • House
  • To Do
  • Corner

• I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'

  

  Faith Prince
  • Good
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• Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
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  • Conscience
  • Resistance

• In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Hair

• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Women
  • Smile
  • Aliens

• We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Thing

• I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Man
  • Rather
  • Denmark

• I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creativity

• They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Life
  • Understanding
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• In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Reality
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• I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it.

  

  Action Bronson
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• Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
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• I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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  • Feel

• The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Think
  • Discipline
  • Down

• Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Sex
  • Feels
  • Misandry

• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Life
  • Power
  • Listening

• As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Sounds

• Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

  

  Joan Halifax
  • Promise
  • Compassion

• I'm fascinated with aggressive music on a street level. We draw from all corners of rock 'n' roll history , hip hop, dance, punk, whatever, and spit it out as the Prodigy sound. The live element allows us to take it one step further, to really connect with the crowd and bring out a darker side to the band. It will always remain important to me to create something raw and unpolished.

  

  Liam Howlett The Prodigy
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  • Aggressive

• Very interested in any technology that can help create a safer and more secure America.

  

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