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I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.

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• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Work
  • You
  • Air

• Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Country
  • Me
  • Chance

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Serious

• At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Culture
  • Question

• Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Information
  • Greatest

• There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Time
  • Wear
  • Shorts

• Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Doubt

• I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Hate
  • Used
  • Would

• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Politics
  • Research
  • Merits

• Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Perspective
  • Losing

• Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Long
  • Remember

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Day
  • Always

• When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Bad
  • Playing
  • Started

• What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

  

  Fred W. Friendly
  • Money

• Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-the mother.

  

  Claudette Colbert
  • Why
  • Mother
  • Enemy

• During my 40s, I thought I couldn't wear red lipstick. I thought it was just too much and I couldn't do it anymore. I don't know why. But now, I'm going to wear red lipstick for as long as I want.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Long
  • Why
  • Red

• An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?" "Yes I’m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?" "Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow..." "I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.

  

  M.I.A.
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  • Boring
  • Controversial