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• I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Successful
  • Problems
  • Lucky

• Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Children
  • Father
  • Parents

• Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Good
  • Question
  • Heaven

• Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • You
  • Happiness

• The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Strong
  • Law
  • Support

• The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Alive
  • Evolve

• I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Love
  • Game
  • Mom

• People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• The verdict of the world is conclusive.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Verdict
  • Conclusive

• No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Body

• In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Hole

• Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Success
  • Internet
  • Nobody

• Fear controls you.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • You
  • Fear
  • Controls

• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Suffering
  • End

• I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Admire

• Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Player
  • King
  • Hero

• I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

  

  Micky Dolenz The Monkees
  • Chase awards

• The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.

  

  David Edward
  • People
  • Individual
  • Common

• Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Justice
  • Interest

• The worsening of relations between a declining America and an internally troubled Mexico could even give rise to a particularly ominous phenomenon: the emergence, as a major issue in nationalistically aroused Mexican politics, of territorial claims justified by history and ignited by cross-border incidents.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • History
  • Politics

• I open the door for old ladies, I help old ladies across the road. I do a show for leukemia every year, but I don't broadcast that because it's against my image.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Helping
  • Leukemia

• In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

  

  Rebecca MacKinnon
  • Politics
  • Helping
  • Leader