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Reasoned, caring conversations that considered the complexity of other perspectives didn’t get views. Rants did. Outrage did. Simplicity did.

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• The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

  

  Orson Welles
  • American
  • Reality
  • Process

• I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Looking

• The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Problems
  • Will
  • Decisions

• I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Character
  • Interesting

• Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Passion

• Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Business
  • Free
  • Daily

• I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen or pod as from glued quires of printed pages.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Up
  • Children
  • Hope

• I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.

  

  Gabe Paul
  • Watching
  • Flourish

• Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Important
  • Writer
  • Chekhov

• We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Kind
  • Economy
  • Recovery

• There are certain people in our popular culture that just capture people's imaginations. And in death, they become even larger. Now, I have to admit that it's also fed by a 24/7 media that is insatiable.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Death
  • Culture

• It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Hate

• Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. “Long time, no see.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Just broke up with somebody. Well, it wasn't really a break up, it was a booty call I might have took too serious.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • Serious
  • Might

• Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.

  

  W. Phillip Keller
  • Life
  • God
  • Contentment

• Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • God
  • Earth

• Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Help
  • Pain

• Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Opportunity
  • Wish
  • Adversity

• It is very, very rare where a slight that turns into a grudge that is in need of forgiveness is only about one of the parties. In most of our day-to-day situations - with colleagues at work, with your partner, with your children, with your friends - most of the time, if you really got down with each other and put aside your pride and your defensiveness and you had those hard conversations, you'd find a place where both people had something to ask for forgiveness from the other and to forgive the other.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Forgiveness

• Know that, as in life, there is much that many have looked upon but few have seen because, as my father told me and his father told him, you will come to learn a great deal if you study the insignificant in depth.

  

  Odysseas Elytis
  • Life
  • Great
  • Father

• Democrats and all public servants just need to be honest. If we have schools that aren’t working … we need to face the facts and fix them.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • School
  • Honest
  • Democrats

• If you've got the confidence and the work ethic, you can make any dream come true.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Confidence

• Reasoned, caring conversations that considered the complexity of other perspectives didn’t get views. Rants did. Outrage did. Simplicity did.

  

  Hank Green
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