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The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.

  

  Tara Reid
  • America
  • Party
  • Stupid

• I love so many styles of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Want
  • Never
  • Box

• Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Rights
  • Means
  • Homosexuality

• In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • English
  • First
  • Birthday

• I never was a very good singer.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Good
  • Never
  • Singer

• My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Him

• The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Passion
  • Miracle
  • Gift

• Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Kids
  • Water
  • Hell

• I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Country
  • Man

• I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Serious
  • Drama

• The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Sickness

• A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Dark
  • Poem
  • Redeem

• You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Design
  • Clothes

• What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Peace
  • Sea
  • River

• Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Children
  • Education

• The good Lord is amazing; He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream, and He was like, 'Hey, slow down there, buddy.'

  

  David Nail
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dream

• When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Giving

• I think it's important to have scaling challenge because there are players who I feel play 'Dragon Age' for the wonder, story and exploration but wouldn't enjoy getting their butts handed to them. We do still have easy mode - it's not a pure story mode in that there's zero combat, but it's not super-challenging.

  

  Marc Laidlaw
  • Important
  • Age
  • Challenge

• There is an economy in Heaven. There are cities in Heaven, and there are people who lead and people who don't lead, people who are rewarded and people who are not rewarded.

  

  Bruce Wilkinson
  • People
  • Heaven

• Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Shadows

• The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".

  

  U Thant
  • Important
  • Country
  • Single