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• Every time I do something new, it makes me a bit stronger. Playing huge shows, being invited to play with Nile Rodgers after the Brits - all are mindblowing and I have a great team around me who are empowering. It makes all the difference.

  

  Freya Ridings
  • Difference
  • Empowering
  • Every

• As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • Universal
  • Particularly
  • Prescription

• My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.

  

  Richard Virenque
  • Stage
  • Last
  • Again

• One day, you have a father who's always around, and then the next day, he's gone. I was too young to comprehend that. I actually thought he was going to come back.

  

  Michelle Phan
  • Father
  • Going
  • Actually

• Are we not called to communicate a mystery of hope to those around us by the lives we lead?

  

  Brother Roger
  • Hope
  • Lives
  • Communicate

• If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world.

  

  William Kristol
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

  

  Nicholas Offerman
  • Growing Up
  • Around
  • Artistic

• You're seeing a youngster that's going to be around for a very, very long time

  

  Cristie Kerr
  • Time
  • Long
  • Going To

• It's funny how even when the sky falls around us, people still have to make pancakes.

  

  Rachel DeWoskin
  • Sky
  • Around
  • Falls

• I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Love
  • Peace
  • Around

• Growing up, I didn't have many comics, but I grew to love these characters through their film and television universes. I've been geeking out about these superheroes ever since I could tie a towel around my neck like a cape and jump off my grandmother's porch.

  

  Ray Fisher
  • Growing
  • Grandmother
  • Could

• As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

  

  Raymond Floyd
  • Course
  • Hitting
  • Explosion

• What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't.

  

  David Bellamy
  • World
  • Good
  • Done

• I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000 years-if we don't destroy ourselves in the meantime. It's possible that 50 years from now we're going to end up out of this solar system, batting around the universe, at least within our galaxy, investigating other stars and other systems.

  

  Deke Slayton
  • Possible
  • Ground
  • Galaxy

• Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

  

  David Walker
  • Vision
  • Leadership
  • Building

• There’s a lot of positivity around, you just have to tap into it.

  

  Paddy Boom Scissor Sisters
  • Around
  • Positivity
  • Tap

• There's a large percentage of mobile phones that now have a camera that's with you a lot of the time, and there's a lot of interest around those cameras as a data collection mechanism.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Interest
  • Camera
  • Cameras

• I don't give up easily. I have plans to be around for a while.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Up
  • Plans
  • Give Up

• I wish we could all have a telling room, a place where we go to tell our stories and listen to the stories of others; in our culture, the telling room might be around the dinner table or in the car on a long trip.

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • Listen
  • Dinner
  • Room

• My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Write
  • Identity
  • Compulsion

• I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.

  

  Dan Greenburg
  • Always
  • Specific
  • Detector

• There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. You take a step in a house, you start moving around the house, no one else moves with you. You're walking by yourself.

  

  David Ignatow
  • Book
  • Yourself
  • Step

• The world is a museum in which all men are destined to be employed and amused, and they cannot be too much interested in the objects around them. Goldsmith the elegant imitator of Buffon, says “The mere uninformed spectator passes on in gloomy solitude; while the naturalist in every plant, in every insect, and in every pebble, finds something to entertain his curiosity and excite his speculation.”

  

  Charles Willson Peale
  • World
  • Interested
  • Museum

• For two hours, some guy followed me around with a pooper scooper.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Guy
  • Around
  • Scooper

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