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• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Exercise

• Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Baseball

• Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • You
  • Mad

• Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Art
  • Sometimes
  • Revolution

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Risk
  • Year

• People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Identity

• I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Excellence

• Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Like
  • Thought

• Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • World
  • Culture
  • Freedom

• Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ... and have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • City
  • Jesus

• So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.

  

  Walter Scott
  • War

• I have always considered the price of perfection prohibitive and allowed mistakes as a part of the learning process. I prefer a dash of daring and persistence to perfection. I have always supported learning on the part of my team members by paying vigilant attention to each of their attempts, be they successful or unsuccessful.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Team
  • Attention
  • Learning

• I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.

  

  Angus Young
  • Music
  • Mind
  • King

• Music is nothing separate from me. It is me. I can't retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. You'd have to remove the music from me surgically - like you were taking out my appendix.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Music

• While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

  

  Dinah Sheridan

• My heart is just being in this industry. I've been lucky enough to have been in films, plays, and on radio.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Heart

• [Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Business
  • Government
  • Citizens

• If there is evidence that an employee has broken the law, caused harm to veterans, or have violated the public trust, they should be terminated immediately. Instead, due to overly cumbersome and lengthy arbitrations as well as extensive bureaucratic red tape, VA has not been able to remove employees as quickly as we would have liked.

  

  David Shulkin
  • Law
  • Trust
  • Red

• I struggled a bit with Malayalam, but it was easier speaking Tamil; it is closer to Telugu.

  

  Raashi Khanna
  • Speaking
  • Struggled
  • Telugu

• This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

  

  Red Barber
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