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A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Home
  • Fun

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Age
  • Past

• Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Country
  • Know

• I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Live
  • Think
  • Start

• My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • Real
  • Job

• You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Media
  • Talking
  • Social Media

• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • Power
  • Giving

• Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

  

  Ice Cube
  • World
  • Important
  • Forget

• When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.

  

  Charlene Tilton
  • Food

• For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Music
  • Long
  • Desire

• Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.

  

  David Deutsch
  • Interesting

• When it comes to clothing, I've got one really hard and fast rule: never wear beige. That's such an old-lady colour.

  

  Jerry Hall

• The automobile crash was... devastating in ways that I still cannot really bear to think about... It took me many years to recover. In some ways, I never have.

  

  James Rosenquist

• I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar in, so that's more of a quiche, isn't it?

  

  Lesley Nicol

• There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Work
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

  

  John Chrysostom

• There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Picture

• Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Children
  • Book
  • Sunday

• I've got to bring it 'cause they're going to compare me to that Taylor [Lautner] kid, and if I don't bring it, I'm just going to get crushed.

  

  Michael Trevino
  • Causes
  • Compare
  • Crushed

• A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.

  

  Esther Freud
  • Book
  • Moving
  • Wonderful