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People and their religions don't affect me.

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• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Travel
  • Economy
  • Tourism

• All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Friends
  • Today
  • Nice

• Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Listen
  • News

• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Life
  • Follow

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Dark
  • Very
  • Southern

• I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Child
  • Brave
  • Coward

• It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.

  

  Gary Carr
  • People
  • Nice
  • Always

• I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.

  

  A. J. Foyt
  • Way
  • Just
  • Guess

• Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Great
  • Career
  • Best

• What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Literature

• The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Problem
  • Act
  • Nervous

• Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Just
  • OK
  • Just Be

• I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Children
  • Art

• At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with who I am, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time tempering my personality. Whatever job I have next, I'm going to be somebody who wants to get things done.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Up
  • Pride
  • Judge

• And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • World
  • Think
  • Control

• You never find peace in this realm, but it's okay, because when my dad went to the other side, he looks after me now better than he did in life. He is with me all the time.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Life
  • Time
  • Peace

• I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Music
  • Teenager

• People and their religions don't affect me.

  

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