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It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I’m not offended by homosexuality. In the 60s I made love to many, many women – often outdoors in the mud and… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person. — Raekwon Copy Share Image
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The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play. — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
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Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in… — Lena Horne Copy Share Image
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Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
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I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the moon… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be,… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
I pictured a girl who made every moment, everything she touched, and everyone around her feel lighter and sweeter. “I pictured you,”… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Society is made up of groups, and as long as the smaller groups do not have the same rights and the same… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I made the rules I figured I could be the one to break them. I thought I would write about xenophobia, a… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder. — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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Quit worrying about what other people think and just be who God made you to be. If you will run your race,… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence. — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
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