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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Career
  • Been
  • Focused

• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Devil
  • Angel

• My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Wish
  • Myself

• The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Together
  • Science
  • Interesting

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Speak
  • Radio
  • Go

• I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Down

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Universe
  • Two
  • Stupidity

• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation

• The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Important
  • Fun
  • City

• Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Run
  • Google
  • Windows

• You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.

  

  M.I.A.
  • America
  • You
  • Years

• Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Causes
  • Avoid
  • Compromises

• All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Back
  • Congress

• When I meet somebody in the street who knows about 'Humans of New York,' a lot of times they might have a scripted answer, and that scripted answer is the first thing to come out of their mouth.

  

  Brandon Stanton

• In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Slavery

• My mistakes made were learning how to work with different groups of people. I mean, I went to school at Berkeley, which is a pretty diverse group, but working in a professional setting, I hadn't really done that before and learning about office politics, learning about interactions between different people and I made a lot of mistakes there during my time as a young person. I was 19 or 20 at the time. So, I would say those were my biggest career mistakes, but fortunately they were made in the context of an engineering co-op program and not in a professional field.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

  

  James Payn
  • Hand

• I like to work.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Work
  • Like

• Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Work
  • Success
  • Work Hard