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I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.

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• I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Work
  • Love
  • Woman

• All reactionaries are paper tigers.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Paper
  • Tigers

• When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Good
  • Food
  • Know

• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Lazy
  • Vote

• I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Different
  • Done
  • Never

• In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Power
  • Friends

• If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Good
  • Beginning
  • Building

• I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Express Myself

• The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Serious

• Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

  

  Sam Kean
  • World
  • Country
  • Pretty

• What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Strength
  • Page
  • Call

• When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.

  

  Valerie June
  • World
  • Teenager
  • Happening

• Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Travel

• This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Best
  • Always
  • Achieve

• I'm by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I've fallen into the worst possible trade for that.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Nature
  • Understand
  • Possible

• Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Different
  • History
  • You

• Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• The principle question before us is not, do we comprehend the atonement, but, do we accept it.

  

  George Q. Morris
  • Accept
  • Atonement
  • Comprehend

• A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Taste

• Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Constitution

• Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thoughts
  • Drama
  • Perspective

• My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn't get a good job, yet there were four of us for her to raise.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • English
  • Parent
  • My Family

• I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.

  

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