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Initially, terrorism was a certain mixture of politics, economics, and religion. Now, it seems that terrorism is more individual and done to avenge personal grudges. So there are two kinds of terrorism.

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• I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Myself
  • Woman

• I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Think
  • Me
  • Idle

• We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Important
  • Women
  • She

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Getting Older

• People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Picture
  • Guilty

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Favorite

• I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Like

• Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Real
  • Chicago
  • Real estate

• I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Want
  • Just
  • Clear

• My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Day
  • Moment
  • Next

• There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Things
  • Try

• I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Try
  • Go

• I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • God
  • Movie
  • Acting

• It's what every writer needs: a daybed.

  

  Vince Flynn
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  • Writer
  • Every

• We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

  

  Earl Nightingale
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  • Dark
  • Walk

• For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Why
  • American

• It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if they know I've been brought up in the West, they still expect me to understand all the subtleties of their culture, and if I get it wrong, it matters much more than if a British person gets it wrong. I find it intimidating.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Culture

• I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Leadership
  • Exercise
  • Ambition

• Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Attitude

• Initially, terrorism was a certain mixture of politics, economics, and religion. Now, it seems that terrorism is more individual and done to avenge personal grudges. So there are two kinds of terrorism.

  

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