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• Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Care
  • Accept
  • Doctors

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Enough
  • Possible

• I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Different
  • You
  • Perfect

• I know politics; I know the media.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Media

• There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Life
  • Know
  • Water

• It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Know
  • Yourself
  • Easy

• If the crew is hit by the situation that we're trying to portray, I think we get a real and a stronger moment with the camerawork and the actors.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Think

• I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Father
  • Want
  • Myself

• I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Country
  • Age
  • Father

• I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Hand
  • Born
  • Pencil

• Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • May
  • Day
  • Pain

• No one can buy his share of 'clean air' in the market; one has to use communal mechanisms in order to deal with pollution.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Air

• Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Words
  • Powerful

• This makes a man think. You look up and down the bench and you say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?'

  

  Casey Stengel
  • Up
  • Game

• I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is okay, to speak out.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.

  

  Lin Yutang

• If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

  

  Alan Patrick Herbert
  • Earth

• I actually believe that we need missile defense, because of Iran and North Korea and the potential for them to obtain or to launch nuclear weapons, but I also believe that, when we are only spending a few hundred million dollars on nuclear proliferation, then we're making a mistake.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Mistake

• I enjoy lifting weights, but I hate doing cardio.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Hate
  • Lifting

• You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.

  

  Gene Kranz
  • Believe
  • Problem
  • Happens

• Evolution is more about reproduction of the fittest than survival of the fittest; every creature on earth is the product of a series of historical battles between parasites and hosts, between genes and other genes, between members of the same species, between members of one gender in competitions for members of the other gender.

  

  Matt Ridley
  • Earth
  • Survival

• Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.

  

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