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• To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Violence
  • Hatred
  • Rise

• 'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • American
  • Dark
  • Happiness

• The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Made

• My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Down

• To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Life
  • Different
  • Remember

• I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Mark

• The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Weapons

• I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Week
  • Times
  • Thrift

• To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Eyes
  • Sing

• The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Place

• The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Action

• You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Action
  • Goals

• I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Ideas
  • Generation
  • Physics

• Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regulators and, above all, for investors because they have been prone to abuse by stock manipulators.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Financial
  • Stock
  • Abuse

• Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free- indeed, sanctimonious- way for 'progressives' to be racists.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Free
  • Perfect

• 'I have been Foolish and Deluded,' said he, 'and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Brain

• The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people's treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People

• Could man be drunk for everWith liquor, love, or fights,Lief should I rouse at morningsAnd lief lie down of nights.But men at whiles are soberAnd think by fits and starts,And if they think, they fastenTheir hands upon their hearts.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Men
  • Drunk

• I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

  

  Jerry Yang
  • Long

• Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Nature
  • Imagine
  • Harmony

• The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Valuable
  • Productive
  • Enthusiastic

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