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The elementary school I went to, Valencia Park, was focused on the arts.

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• How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Discrimination

• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Difficult

• In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Home
  • Best
  • Start

• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Business
  • Numbers
  • Investing

• They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Show
  • Materials
  • Tease

• Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Doubt
  • Lead
  • Hatred

• When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Need
  • Back
  • Drop

• Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • May
  • Remember
  • Strong

• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • First
  • Short
  • Hear

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Know
  • Cancer
  • Need

• The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • History
  • Nation
  • Most

• I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Me
  • College

• From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committed right away, and that's a major statement about his faith in us.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Guy
  • Faith
  • Like

• It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Odd
  • Playwright

• The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Know
  • Slow

• As with early internet startups, some token models don't make sense. For every 1 huge hit, there will be 3 minor successes and 100 failures, so we shouldn't be surprised when some fail.

  

  Fred Ehrsam

• As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

  

  Emmet Fox
  • Life
  • May
  • Thoughts

• Jeb Bush has being slammed by his own party for a very messy response to questions about his brother's war in Iraq. He should have been ready for this one.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • War
  • Party
  • Brother

• I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the Pirates and the Phillies, and I was always a Steelers fan but not much of an Eagles fan. Then I became kind of a band nerd in school, and I went the music route.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Music
  • School
  • Band

• I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College graduates don't tend to go to jail as frequently as nongraduates.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• The elementary school I went to, Valencia Park, was focused on the arts.

  

  Andra Day
  • School