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• A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • People
  • Mind
  • Optimistic

• My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Business
  • Magic
  • Reputation

• Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • First
  • Special
  • Bar

• Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Why
  • Science
  • Political

• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Period

• I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • World
  • Competition
  • Games

• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Year
  • Loyalty
  • Oath

• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Amazing

• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • May
  • Game

• I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Sometimes

• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Role
  • Bull

• I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Sound

• I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Different
  • Me
  • Kind

• I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Think
  • Film
  • See

• When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Go
  • Wait
  • Outside

• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
  • Forward

• I would tell new artists to be themselves. Show your talents first, have your own identity, don't try to be Lady Saw. If you're coming out to be like me, once you get in, return back to yourself, that's the only way you'll be happy. Don't come in trying to be me and then disrespect me.

  

  Marion Hall
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Identity

• We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

  

  Olaf Stapledon
  • Law
  • Government
  • Aids

• People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Effort
  • Language

• Good doctors exercise judgment. They make the call and - right or wrong - live with the consequences and learn from them. The redefined M.D. is flawed, but comfortable inside their own skin.

  

  Brian Goldman
  • Good
  • Live
  • Exercise

• At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Energy
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