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The richest Indonesians have maybe $5 billion. Bill Gates has $50 billion.

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• America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Me
  • Ladies
  • Gentlemen

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• I've never been one to bet on the weather.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Never
  • Weather
  • Bet

• As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Up
  • Different
  • Pretty

• Few things are as essential as education.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Education
  • Things
  • Few

• Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Selling

• Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Best
  • Try

• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Gender

• Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • People
  • Voice
  • Television

• The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • You
  • Pressure
  • Without

• The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that's a great place to start. I'm trying to spread at least the knowledge that it's never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • Great
  • Long
  • Trying

• Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • Help
  • Today
  • Earth

• I’ve lived most of my life already and I suppose I can argue myself into believing that I have no great cause to love humanity. However, only a few people have hurt me, and if I hurt everyone in return that is unconscionable usury.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• Here is the real domino theory: Gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

  

  Anna Quindlen
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Fall

• One of the real benefits of any travel is gaining some perspective. You see things from different points of view. That came home to me in a variety of ways: politically, economically, seeing what was going on in other states.

  

  Angus King
  • Different
  • Real
  • Home

• I want to share knowledge about things I've learned over the years with a younger generation that is seeking the truth.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• I think that anybody who is going to be the standard-bearer, the spokesman for the progressive movement, in the context of a presidential race, has got to learn to master the language and really get their finger on the pulse of how people are feeling. I think that's really important.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • People
  • Important
  • Feeling

• Forget the adage buy low and sell high.

  

  William J. O'Neil
  • High
  • Forget
  • Adage

• Hamburg is getting a new symbol with its new Elbe Philharmonic concert hall. Such an architecturally impressive building is built somewhere in the world maybe once every five years, if you're lucky.

  

  Charles Landry
  • World
  • Building
  • Lucky

• I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Romantic
  • Pining

• The richest Indonesians have maybe $5 billion. Bill Gates has $50 billion.

  

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