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• I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Open
  • Engagement
  • Dialogue

• Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Death

• Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Listen

• You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • True
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Rock

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Children
  • History
  • Myself

• I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Working
  • New
  • January

• As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Positive
  • End

• Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Country
  • Door
  • Red

• Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.

  

  T. S. Kalyanaraman
  • Play
  • Honesty
  • Stand

• I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Relationship

• I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Hate
  • Travel
  • Go

• I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Live
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Work
  • Job
  • Science

• Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Smart
  • Emotion
  • Face

• It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Raphael's pleasure, his kiss, sent her over a second time....and it wasn't until they both stirred again that Raphael reached down and undid the strap of her knife sheath, putting it and the knife on the bedside table. "Beautiful as this sheath is," he said, touching the leather, "I much prefer the one which holds my blade.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Kiss

• Hey, once a Bond girl, always a Bond girl. It will always be a big deal - it's an exclusive club.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Bond

• Gimme some of that you and me, Some of that way back when, A little bit of wild and free I wanna feel that again

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Free
  • Way
  • WIld

• We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretentions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation.

  

  John Adams
  • Done
  • Friends
  • War

• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  

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