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• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Truth
  • You
  • Actor

• While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Job
  • Experience
  • High

• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Did

• Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Anger
  • Ice

• My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Question
  • Constitution

• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Ride

• But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Night
  • Film
  • Wine

• In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Help
  • Couple
  • Weird

• Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • She
  • True

• I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Chance

• You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • World
  • Mind
  • Fear

• As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Deep
  • Rap

• What I like about Rebel's style of comedy is she never plays the victim... she's never been fazed by her shape; it's just the way it is. She would mock her appearance whatever she looked like.

  

  Kate Jenkinson
  • Way
  • Comedy
  • Style

• In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • School
  • Week
  • Student

• The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Love
  • Necessary

• Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Animal

• Some people say I was a thug and a gangster; other people remember me as a poet and a born leader. But I'm saying to you, measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • Life
  • Remember

• Leaving slowly, / sucking in cold air round a warm tongue, / ennui synchronized to the pulse, / reports from a coiled trachea, / It is only irregular clocks...

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Air
  • Cold
  • Leaving

• New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Energy
  • City
  • Young

• We need a new and positive narrative that defies the negativity and transforms our ageing populations from a problem into an asset.

  

  Alexander De Croo
  • Positive
  • Negativity

• It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Me
  • Values
  • Talking

• Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.

  

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • Style
  • Creativity
  • Break

• Our viewers are very educated, they can tell if I train or not.

  

  Kiana Tom