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• The Prophet Muhammad himself sought to erase any distinctions between the message he taught and that taught by Jesus, who he called God's 'spirit and word.'

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Spirit

• It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Important
  • Money
  • Clothes

• I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Words
  • Know
  • Audience

• You can't win some people over.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • You
  • Win

• I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Music
  • Blessed

• The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Ocean

• The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Political
  • Best
  • Environmental

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Unique

• I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Day

• Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

  

  Faith Prince
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Important
  • Day
  • Start

• From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Always
  • Dance
  • Now

• Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Single
  • Data

• Quiet is the new loud.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • New
  • Quiet
  • Loud

• I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Way
  • Movies
  • Scared

• There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Wife

• President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments. That was a great - I thought a great display of presidential leadership.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Arguments
  • President Lincoln

• A good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

  

  Anne Roe
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Scientist

• If you don't run, you rust.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Run
  • Rust

• It's what counts, isn't it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it's nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It's a much bigger problem.

  

  Lando Norris
  • Problem
  • Mistake
  • Nothing

• 'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • True

• All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

  

  I. F. Stone
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