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It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

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• The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Reality
  • Control
  • Emotions

• I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.

  

  Ma Long
  • Happy
  • Dream
  • Olympic

• I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Simple

• We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Happiness

• I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Society
  • Community

• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Funny

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Dream
  • Start
  • Media

• We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Human
  • Look
  • Biology

• I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.

  

  Madison McKinley
  • World
  • Friends
  • Leader

• I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Country
  • Family
  • Business

• I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Things
  • Needed
  • Challenged

• We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Fighting
  • Dead
  • Heal

• I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Doing

• If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Country
  • Political
  • Doing

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Business
  • You
  • Waiting

• The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.

  

  Andy Garcia
  • Movie
  • Effort

• When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Myself

• We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

  

  David Elliott
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I think it's important to teach kids about American culture, and films are certainly a big part of it.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • Important
  • Kids
  • American

• It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

  

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