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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

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• There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • God
  • Reason
  • Look

• My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• My family is a praying family, a Christian family.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Family
  • Christian
  • Praying

• Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Eye
  • Smile
  • Her

• I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Important
  • Home
  • Worry

• We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Long
  • Change

• If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • You
  • Enough
  • Gun

• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

  

  O. Henry
  • American
  • Day
  • Thanksgiving

• Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Play

• I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • People
  • Happy
  • Start

• You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Done
  • Know
  • Bread

• The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Attention
  • First
  • Presidential

• I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Find
  • Donald
  • Rumsfeld

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Careers

• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Vision

• You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • You

• I eat a lot of junk food, because that's what's usually available at 1:00am when I'm all done working.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Done
  • Food

• Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Good
  • Culture

• I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Want
  • Die
  • Identity