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Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Create

• When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Happy
  • Humanity

• I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • School
  • War
  • High

• If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Going
  • Election

• Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Myself

• I've always driven big SUVs. I'm from Maine, and there's a point to driving a big SUV in Maine. I don't really need a 4WD in L.A., but on the 405, people are crazy, and you need a tank. I like the visibility factor.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Driving

• Women put guys through tests all the time.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Time
  • Women
  • Tests

• Negative politics have always been around.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Negative

• I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Wise
  • Rejection
  • Depressing

• I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Business
  • Career

• God's knowledge extends to things not in existence, and includes also the infinite.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Knowledge

• The wraith of Sigmund said. 'You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Religious

• 'They would say,' he answered, 'that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Lost

• Man geht immer die gleichen Wege des Denkens wie vorher. Nur scheinen sie mit Rosen bestreut.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • You
  • Doing

• ¿Tienen algo que ver con los intereses de los humildes las querellas retóricas de los partidos burgueses?

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Greatness