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• Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Military
  • Liberals

• I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Think
  • Matter
  • Where

• I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad

• I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Food
  • Rest
  • Football

• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Matter
  • Own

• Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • You
  • Spotlight

• You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Done
  • Know
  • Religion

• I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Me
  • Half
  • Attended

• I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • History
  • English

• I'm taking a vow not to advise.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Taking
  • Advise
  • Vow

• I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Think
  • Talent
  • Admire

• I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs to have been extremely social.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Years
  • Early
  • Dinosaurs

• My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Brother
  • Missing
  • Gone

• Consequence is no coincidence.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Consequence
  • Coincidence

• You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Long
  • Moral
  • Values

• Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Work
  • Numbers
  • Prestige

• When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Women
  • Age
  • Successes

• A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Moment

• Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

  

  Joey Adams
  • Success
  • Secret
  • Rockefeller

• When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Song
  • Light
  • Church

• The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Writing
  • Star
  • Fans

• I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

  

  Dolly Parton
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