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What you say and do in a crisis matters.

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• I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Wife

• I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Night
  • Waiting
  • Kid

• I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Different
  • Want
  • Me

• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Go
  • Straight

• When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Amazing
  • Teacher
  • Drama

• It was never about winning medals or being famous.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Never
  • Winning
  • Famous

• I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Athlete

• It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Like
  • Position
  • Valid

• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Get
  • Representative

• Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • World
  • Law
  • Action

• It's like the American democratic system. When you vote, even if your candidate doesn't win, you accept that democracy was in action. When people participate in a Tezos network, they're accepting that the democratic vote of the other coin holders will govern the way the protocol moves.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • American
  • Action

• My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Going

• I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Action
  • Opinion
  • Military

• A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Kids
  • Hate
  • Purpose

• I never really had a strong accent.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Really

• The attitude of the business community towards investment in Austria and Germany has always been positive, as both the countries have earned their reputation as countries with a consistent economic environment.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Business
  • Community
  • Environment

• For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Adventure
  • Darkness

• I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Love
  • Think
  • Books

• We should tell people we are working to protect our country. We are working to make America stronger for the long run.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

  

  Mark Steyn
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

  

  Raymond Chandler
  • Mean
  • Forever
  • Broke

• What you say and do in a crisis matters.

  

  Ami Bera