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I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.

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• I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Strong
  • Actor
  • Director

• On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Enjoy
  • New
  • New Things

• I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Company

• One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Army
  • Being

• I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Writing
  • Questions
  • Without

• I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Real
  • Science
  • Medical

• You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • You
  • Film
  • Yourself

• Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Years
  • Alive
  • Now

• For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

  

  Cao Yu
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Flowers

• I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Me

• Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Future
  • Success
  • Story

• I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Work
  • Day
  • Gay

• Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • People
  • Live
  • Simple

• In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • May
  • Culture

• I don't take vacations.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Take
  • Vacations

• Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Everyone

• One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • World
  • Food
  • Best

• But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • May
  • Problem
  • Serious

• When ordinary people have a say in their own future, then your land can’t just be taken away from you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Future
  • Taken

• I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Amazing
  • Text

• People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Day
  • Media

• I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Government
  • Confidence
  • Civilization

• I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.

  

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