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• Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Love
  • Game

• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Children
  • Money
  • Struggle

• It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Procrastinator

• As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.

  

  Warren R. Austin
  • Work
  • God
  • Spiritual

• Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Details
  • Prepare

• I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Good
  • Music
  • Passion

• I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

  

  Barack Obama
  • President
  • United States

• I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Living
  • More
  • Experiences

• I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Hate
  • Proud
  • Couple

• I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Perspective
  • Internet

• Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Family
  • Service
  • Public

• But, suppose, besides, that the making of the new machinery affords employment to a greater number of mechanics, can that be called compensation to the carpet makers, thrown on the streets?

  

  Karl Marx

• Christian Apocalyptic offers us no such hope. It does not even foretell, (which would be more tolerable to our habits of thought) a gradual decay. It foretells a sudden, violent end imposed from without; an extinguisher popped onto the candle, a brick flung at the gramophone, a curtain rung down on the play - 'Halt!'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Hope
  • Christian

• There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Air

• In Cabinet the important thing is to stop people from talking. Some people are loquacious, some are eloquent. I always used to point out that rhetoric is wasted on a Cabinet of hard-boiled politicians.

  

  Clement Attlee
  • People
  • Important
  • Stop

• I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Party

• Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Peace
  • Military

• When I'm on a stage, it's just me, singing a song with words that I wrote and I believe in. And if I don't believe in them anymore, I'll stop singing that song.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Believe
  • Song
  • Words

• 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It deals with family dynamics, mental health, PTSD, war, and love. It's hard to beat.

  

  Ben Foster
  • Family
  • American
  • War

• I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • World
  • Country
  • Children

• Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Baseball
  • Awards
  • Statistics

• There's no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn't be - bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.

  

  Alan Palomo
  • Real
  • Bands
  • Template

• Les utopies ne sont souvent que des verités prématurées.

  

  Alphonse de Lamartine