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I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.

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• I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Think
  • Man

• Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Sleep
  • Feel
  • Look

• Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Camera

• When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Black
  • Best

• I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Important
  • System
  • Cleansing

• I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Book

• I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Respect

• Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Life
  • Dignity
  • Communism

• A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Men
  • Problem
  • Creation

• Don't think small and expect to have a big life.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Think
  • Small

• Yet our interests, the interests of the Russian Federation, include the normalisation of relations with Japan, which is not at the bottom of the agenda. The whole range of what will be proposed for a solution, the entire range of matters related to the normalisation of our relations and what that would bring after normalisation, this is the whole range of issues to be discussed and decided, and those decisions should be of a practical nature.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Decision
  • Interest
  • Relation

• I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Glory
  • Secrets
  • I Love You

• When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.

  

  John Calvin
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Promises Of God

• I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Wish
  • Him
  • I Wish

• 'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • City
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it, in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Stars
  • Existence
  • Letters

• We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.

  

  Carl F. H. Henry
  • People
  • Events
  • Guarantees

• I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.

  

  El Anatsui
  • I Wish
  • Languages
  • Spoke