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I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

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• Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Intelligent
  • Try

• I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Hope
  • Born
  • Legacy

• I want to get into movies, not just TV series.

  

  LaToya London
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Just

• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Great
  • Society
  • Purpose

• I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Problems
  • Everyone
  • Solve

• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Death
  • Terrorism
  • Sickness

• When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Parent

• I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Man
  • Boy
  • Before

• Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

  

  B. B. King
  • You
  • Play
  • Blue

• Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Peace
  • Mission
  • Contribution

• You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Respect
  • Rights
  • Have

• That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Long
  • Father
  • Parents

• You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

  

  Usher
  • Great
  • Star
  • Personality

• The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Real
  • Sex
  • Story

• My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Wife
  • Deep
  • Roots

• The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Heart
  • Me
  • Desire

• That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Driving
  • Consciousness
  • Performances

• Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Value

• But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement.

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Evil
  • Haunt

• I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Issues
  • Lefty