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Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.

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• One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
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• There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

  

  Langston Hughes
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• It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

  

  Camille Claudel
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• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  

  Frances Mayes
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• If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

  

  T Bone Burnett
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• Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.

  

  Laura Dekker
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• Look at Rihanna. She's so sexy. She comes from Planet Sexy. I worship her. I really, really do.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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• America is addicted to wars of distraction.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• I think that I've had a very strange life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

  

  Yann Tiersen
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• Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

  

  Rachel Maddow
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• The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.

  

  Fran Kranz
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• When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
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• The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.

  

  Missy Peregrym
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• Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

  

  Prince Charles
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• The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.

  

  E. M. Delafield
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• However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.

  

  Craig Kilborn
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• Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.

  

  Anand Gopal