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Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don't know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
In our society, real power does not happen to lie in the political system, it lies in the private economy: that’s where… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about]… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
John and I weren't capable of getting back to Kenwood from there, so the four of us sat up for the rest… — Cynthia Lennon Copy Share Image
The BRIC countries - Brazil, India, China, Turkey, South Africa, Indonesia even, and Russia - are now new actors. Over the last… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
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Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I think zombies are the great analogy for all of our fears about all of the scary things that happen on our… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
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To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
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For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
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There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after they've been ordered to leave the United States.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
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I happen to believe that certain types of assault weapons, which are manufactured and designed for military purposes to kill people very… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
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