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A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

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• What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
  • Money
  • Running

• My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Goal
  • Budget

• In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • World
  • Technology
  • Computers

• I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • You
  • Mistakes

• People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • People
  • True
  • Taken

• Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Service
  • Medical

• It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • World
  • Important
  • Father

• Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere. It was up to the DJ what he wanted to play. Typically in dance music, people didn't know most of the songs a DJ played.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Running
  • Rest

• It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

  

  George Clooney
  • Proud
  • Film
  • Building

• I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • People
  • Common
  • Behave

• A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Conservative

• You couldn't get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I just went into a sort of revolt.

  

  Gregory LeNoir Allman The Allman Brothers Band
  • Job
  • Played
  • Club

• Chat to the ghosts! That's what I do!

  

  Lee Ryan Blue
  • Ghost

• Heart is fun for the whole family!

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Fun

• I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
  • People
  • Hate

• Our army, if it exists for honorable purposes only, will draw to it honorable men. It will call to it the best men of our race- men of skill and culture. It will not be recruited as so many modern nations are, from those who are industrially useless.

  

  Michael Collins
  • Men
  • Army
  • Call

• O Peterkin,” said I, in a tone of remonstrance, “how could you be so unkind as to waken me when I had just got to sleep? Shabby fellow!” “Just got to sleep, say you? You’ve been snoring like an apoplectic alderman for exactly two hours.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Tone
  • Fellow
  • Shabby

• The highest tone is hard to hear.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Hear
  • Tone

• A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

  

  Carlo Wolff
  • Writes
  • Tone
  • Texture