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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.

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• Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • You
  • Now
  • London

• Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Important
  • Political
  • Team

• In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Poverty
  • Injustice

• Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Couple

• Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

  

  Quintus Tullius Cicero
  • Meetings
  • Public Policy

• Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Team
  • Football
  • Stronger

• You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.

  

  Hank Stram
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Never explain, never complain.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Never
  • Explain
  • Complain

• Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Want
  • Fool

• If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

  

  Gabriel Heatter
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Game

• The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Problems
  • Results
  • Possible

• I believe a lot of what contributes to the sadness and downward-spiraling in our lives is a sense of hopelessness. We become resentful when circumstances aren't unfolding as we want, leading us to doubt whether we will ever get what we want.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Doubt
  • Sadness

• Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Actor
  • Nervous

• Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Powerful

• The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Great
  • Job
  • Me

• It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

  

  Eddie Mathews
  • You
  • Rhythm
  • Slump

• Though I’m sure Stanley Kubrick was full of energy, he didn’t seem like it because he was so quiet and he moved very calculatingly–rather slow physically.

  

  Marie Windsor
  • Energy

• They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

  

  Anna Louise Strong

• When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed,And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Night
  • Star

• I want a desirable place to work to attract and keep them here. So you try to create an environment for people to do their best work, and be generous on the benefit side.

  

  Joe Mansueto
  • People
  • Work
  • Environment

• A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

  

  Claudia Rankine
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.

  

  Leon Panetta