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• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Think
  • Future
  • Twitter

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Together

• I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

  

  Questlove
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Trying
  • Leadership
  • Opportunities

• Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Year
  • United States

• Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Job
  • Hate

• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Health

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Black
  • Comedy

• The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Problem
  • Jerusalem
  • Grandeur

• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Action
  • Military
  • Bank

• I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Age

• There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tired
  • Busy
  • Pursuing

• If your child really loves art, get them some good brushes. Get good material and make them feel that what they do is important.

  

  Denise Fleming
  • Good
  • Important
  • Art

• You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

  

  Feist
  • You
  • Everything
  • Canvas

• You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• The progressives like to talk a lot about poverty - and you should. However, it's the guys in the middle who have really been hurt by the global economy . The people at the bottom have been holding on to their jobs quite well, actually.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Poverty

• I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn't have their father's support. If I were to complain, that would be real sad. How dare I?

  

  John David Washington
  • People
  • Real
  • Father

• Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Time
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