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On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The Syrians lost out because they happened to have their revolution during an election cycle in America, France, and bizarrely, some kind… — Paul Conroy Copy Share Image
I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
Christians aren’t making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They’re making a historical one; they’re saying that… — Greg Gilbert Copy Share Image
The secret of our lost mode of prayer is to shift our perspective of life by feeling that the miracle has already… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Is there any media here? A couple? Excellent. I want to ask you, I don't know what persuasion you are, but would… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
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I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
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I'm just made differently. Man, I just love being an American, I love my country. But it happened to me during the… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money,… — Dagobert D. Runes Copy Share Image
I cannot morally blame all Americans for allowing, for instance, the birth of the Federal Reserve System and the money destruction that… — Robert Prechter Copy Share Image
I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
...it's like this white-Indian thing has gotten out of control. And the thing with the blacks and the Mexicans. Everybody blaming everybody...I… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I have thought briefly about getting caught in rock slides or falling from a rock face. If that happened, I would probably… — Richard Proenneke Copy Share Image
I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
In specific terms I don't think I could make any suggestions, but in general terms I believe that it is because Canadians… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
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The really funny thing is that my mom and my dad never, ever, ever wanted me to be in this businessbut it… — Ksenia Solo Copy Share Image
That's what the left is always doing. They have an ideal, and they want people to conform to it. When people don't… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
We create these boom-bust cycles by manipulating the money supply and the interest rates and directing it where it went in. And… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping… — George Will Copy Share Image
Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Um, lots of people grab my ass. I'm actually starting to get this thing now where people grab my package. That actually… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court… — Christopher Peterson Copy Share Image
Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
That's part of what I touch on in my [UN] speech - when assaults happen on women and girls in these fragile… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
To be honest with you, girls didn't really start paying attention to me until after 'Clueless' came out. Then, all of a… — Donald Faison Copy Share Image