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My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

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• It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Good
  • May
  • Truth

• Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Time
  • Music
  • Song

• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Important
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  

  Otto Schily
  • World
  • Feel
  • Hatred

• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Eye

• Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Success
  • Like
  • Look

• We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Force
  • Three
  • Task

• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • President
  • Laws
  • Principle

• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

  

  Ice Cube
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Know

• Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Song
  • Man
  • Crazy

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
  • Feelings
  • Tears
  • Word

• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Colors

• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Like
  • Humor

• You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Together
  • Player
  • Animal

• The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • People
  • Experience
  • Friends

• When you strike a blow, do not let your mind dally on it, not concerning yourself with whether or not it is a telling blow; you should strike again and again, over and over, even four or five times. The thing is not to let your opponent even raise his head.

  

  Yagyu Munenori
  • Mind
  • Blow
  • Four

• I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• You're lucky if you reach the point where you go, "OK, I have a wonderful life ...I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what's to complain about?" But I think you have to get there... And it's taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I'm like, "I'm very lucky, I'm lucky, I'm blessed" - all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you're young, you just don't listen.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

• My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

  

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