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I didn't grow up reading the Bible.

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• I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Hatred

• I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Feel

• When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Harmony

• I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Way
  • English
  • Person

• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Reason
  • Stories
  • Lives

• I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Play
  • Characters

• For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Why
  • Sometimes
  • Understand

• The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Criticism
  • Old
  • Tradition

• My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech

• Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Time
  • Change
  • Tree

• My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Father
  • Proud
  • Algerian

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• When you're rich you don't write checks.

  

  Randy Moss
  • You
  • Write
  • Rich

• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Optimistic

• Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

  

  Demi Moore
  • Women
  • Why
  • Age

• Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Career
  • Strength
  • Everest

• The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Relationship
  • Unique

• Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Friends
  • Growth

• I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did.

  

  John Forsythe
  • Life
  • Work
  • Happy

• I didn't grow up reading the Bible.

  

  Anna Diop
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