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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

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• I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Forever

• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Walking

• Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Culture
  • Fast
  • Biology

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Art
  • Business
  • Career

• I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Purpose

• I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hero

• I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Three
  • London

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Men
  • Think
  • Doing

• I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • Travel
  • Been

• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Hope
  • New
  • Recovery

• I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • Writing
  • Found

• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Years
  • Period

• In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Technology
  • Trump
  • Ignorance

• I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Lost

• I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Long
  • Family
  • Together

• I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Marriage
  • Class

• My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Mom

• It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

  

  Richard Whately
  • Concerned
  • Occasion
  • Happiest

• All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. The rock bands are rather drab, even the good ones. You definitely don't want to look at them. But some of those R&B people are very good.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

  

  George Murray
  • Different

• My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope