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In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs.… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
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I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a… — Osric Chau Copy Share Image
When I look back at this career I've had, I don't know where it goes from here, but certainly any time I… — Don Coscarelli Copy Share Image
I personally think a fight scene is the most cinematic thing you can witness because all the elements of filmmaking come together,… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as… — John Collison Copy Share Image
I tried to be just a singer of standards when I was starting out. And there was nothing special enough about my… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
It was early on in 1965 when I wrote some of my first poems. I sent a poem to 'Harper's' magazine because… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an… — Leah Ward Sears Copy Share Image
I travel often, which can make maintaining a workout schedule a little difficult, but I try to make time for it whenever… — Bethany Mota Copy Share Image
Back when you were doing plays like 'The Miracle Worker,' you had 20, 25 people in the cast. When you go to… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will… — Alexa Von Tobel Copy Share Image
I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make… — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player.… — Hannah Storm Copy Share Image
I studied in New York. I fell in love with an Australian-born, half-Filipina girl. So we moved to Australia when she went… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Demagoguery sells. And therefore radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I'm very serious about what I write and who I allow to produce the music, because I want to make sure it's… — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
Most amateurs are so worried about mis-hitting the shot or hitting it off line, they don't make an aggressive move. You'd be… — Keegan Bradley Copy Share Image
I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah,… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
