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• I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Good
  • Done
  • May

• There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Career
  • Going
  • Go

• Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Journey
  • Grateful
  • Universal

• I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Live
  • Edge

• Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Game
  • Way
  • Baseball

• National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Write
  • Identity
  • Inside

• The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Father

• The bars would have to provide places for people to dispose of cigarette butts outside. People would be smoking near the entrances, which may not look good to non-smokers.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Speech

• Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Worry
  • Failure

• God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Christian

• I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Teenager
  • Goes
  • Angst

• All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Judgment
  • Believers
  • Astrology

• Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Forever

• The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Genius
  • Results
  • Schemer

• Alone on the timeless beach, Josephine Pellegrini finds herself disappointed by the end of the world.

  

  Hannu Rajaniemi
  • End Of The World
  • Josephine Pellegrini

• It's so surreal being here.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Being
  • Here
  • Surreal

• A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • German
  • French
  • Wines

• My own unryhmed cadences, and those of other writers are a reversion to the real English tradition of Cynewulf.

  

  F.S. Flint
  • Tradition
  • Cadences
  • Cynewulf

• Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

  

  Thomas More
  • Thinking
  • Pride
  • Shining

• It turns out, from what I hear, that roasted fruit bats are delicious.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Turns
  • Delicious