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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Best Friend

• I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Me
  • Person
  • Gun

• I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

  Ford Frick
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Opera

• I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Good
  • American
  • Dream

• I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Love
  • Food
  • Die

• I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Time
  • Enough
  • Vote

• You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good

  

  Martin Mull
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Beautiful

• By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • Time
  • Job
  • Wall

• If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • People
  • Game
  • Night

• The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Financial

• I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Dangerous
  • Directors

• Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Energy
  • Coffee
  • Idiot

• Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.

  

  H. A. Rey
  • Good
  • Running
  • Play

• The first time I got on stage I was 10 years old and I did impressions. I did cartoon characters and I really got the bug for this life when I saw that people were laughing and saw the attention I was getting.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Christian
  • Loss
  • Investment

• Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Work
  • Talent

• With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Weird
  • Position
  • Weight

• Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Greta, Greta, he whispered, eyes shut in rapture, on thy breast I write my Edda, at thy feet I lay the keys of Niflheim, by thy leave alone, I live, and breathe, and die.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Write
  • Keys
  • Greta

• The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

  

  Rex Stout
  • Keys
  • Glasses