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For many people in the U.N., the 1990s was the worst decade the organization experienced. This was the decade of Somalia, Srebrenica,… — Andrew Mack Copy Share Image
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I do everything I watch, whether it's like a big comic book film that I've done or something very serious and raw.I… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
I do remember when I was starting acting, going from one set to the next, with not much else going on in… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful… — Anita Elberse Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in,… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
As a kid, I just was a contract player at MGM Studios. They put me into goodness knows how many different roles.Some… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
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We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened,… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I did enjoy singing the song, called "The Count", which is Count Olaf's big song that he sings to the kids when… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I didn't react visually. This girl came up and knelt over the body and let out a God-awful scream that made me… — John Filo Copy Share Image
I knew at the time my haircut was pretty damn god-awful, so I was just hoping that I wasn't one of the… — David Cook Copy Share Image
As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
The alcohol was awful. I was a terrible alcoholic. I mean, people used to ask how much drugs I did. I said,… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Our training is world-class across all the services. We spend an awful lot on every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman that… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits. When you look… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to,… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain… — Faith Sullivan Copy Share Image
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Dating is horrible, it's awful. I don't get it. It's like you're standing there: 'Hi. Do you want to have sex and… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
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