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• I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Energy

• Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Look

• In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Attitude

• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Patience
  • Alcohol
  • Stupidity

• But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • High
  • Yourself
  • Expectations

• There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Start
  • Late
  • Silicon Valley

• Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Style
  • Like
  • Look

• I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Women
  • Playing
  • Events

• The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Conflict
  • Israel
  • Heights

• My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Life
  • Parents

• Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Energy

• We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Food
  • Wisdom
  • Spiritual

• Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Critical
  • Seasons
  • Situations

• I am proud to say that I was launched in Tamil through 'Poi' by Balachander sir, who was the one who launched the legends like Rajni sir, Kamal sir & Prakash Raj sir.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Legends
  • Tamil
  • Balachander

• There is a possibility that there is somebody out there alive today over 122, but we'll probably never know it, because in all likelihood they come from either China or India, and they don't have reliable birth records.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Today
  • Know
  • Never

• We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Power
  • Dying

• Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Meditation
  • Negative

• I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Looking
  • Text

• Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Clouds

• I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.

  

  Mal Peet
  • She
  • Feel
  • Dead

• It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.

  

  Michael Sam
  • Football
  • Knows
  • Exciting

• I slept fourteen feet from a polka tavern as a kid growing up. I heard polkas all night long, people singing and drinking beers and having a great time. I know more polkas than Frankie Yancovic!

  

  Al Jarreau
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My dad died in May of '97. The effects of his death immediately were not all that hard, but a year or two later it hit, when my job as Dad was sort of done and I was sending my kids to college. And somehow, the emotional intensity of that event mixed with the loss of my own dad, was kind of upsetting.

  

  Wayne Watson
  • Kids
  • Dad
  • College

• Rochester: Oh oh.

  

  Jack Benny