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I only watched 'The Vampire Diaries' because my friends who loves vampires was like, 'Just watch it.' I was like, 'No, I don't want to watch 'Gossip Girls' with teeth.'

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• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
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  • New York

• I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

  

  Nancy Wake
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  • Women
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• Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
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• I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

  

  Francine Pascal
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• I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.

  

  Farooq Abdullah
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• I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • World
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• Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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  • Golf

• For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Important
  • Women
  • Mind

• My parents came over from Barbados in the late 1950s and early '60s.

  

  David Harewood
  • Parents

• Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Together
  • Financial

• You're not a bad parent if you don't save for your kid's college because instead you had to choose to feed them and clothe them. Those things come first. They can go to school and do this thing called 'work' while they're in school.

  

  Dave Ramsey
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• I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • People
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• I have found I'm leaning toward more vibrant colors because I'm so happy in them.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Happy

• Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Gratitude

• Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

  

  Katherine Webb
  • Help
  • Feeling

• When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • World
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• I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.

  

  James Caan
  • People
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• Like the majority of Alaskans, I supported a constitutional amendment in 1998 defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, but my thinking has evolved as America has witnessed a clear cultural shift.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Marriage

• I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • Emotional

• Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • America
  • Europe
  • Israel

• I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Up
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  • House

• 'We are tempted so that we may pray the more. Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • May
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• I only watched 'The Vampire Diaries' because my friends who loves vampires was like, 'Just watch it.' I was like, 'No, I don't want to watch 'Gossip Girls' with teeth.'

  

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