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Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
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Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth:… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
I had really not been out of the United States much, except for Mexico. I thought, "Jesus Christ, this [Russia] is like… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Yet now the industrialized world is moving away from fossil fuels and moving towards renewable sources of energy. And because we have… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
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But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Tech N9ne is worldwide, man, it's the biggest thing ever to me and if it happens to blow as big as I… — Aaron Dontez Yates Copy Share Image
Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world… — Jason Isaacs Copy Share Image
I was excellent at English and Drama. Maths and Science I was terrible at. I didn't have any interest in them. I… — Peter Andre Copy Share Image
A cigar makers organization once said that I was the most famous cigar smoker in the world. I dont know if thats… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
China hasn't only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it's become a problem. The problem is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I don't like to read or write about life in its tiring entirety. Most days, months, even years are just filler between… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by… — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
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The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I decided a long time ago that if I was going to do anything internationally, it would be mainstream pop entertainment -… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world, and it no longer is. Citizens cannot be… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
There's so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love. People try to say… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
He closed his eyes as she put her hand on his shoulder, and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song,… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The issue is that when you're a critic it's hard to tell the difference between the thrill of denouncing and telling the… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically:… — Adolfo Perez Esquivel Copy Share Image
Today we can only hear the voices and witness the imaginations of one-third of the world's people. We are all being robbed… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
There was a reason these boys were still alive, though. Something made them stronger than the other kids, the ones who had… — Charlie Higson Copy Share Image
Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the… — Betty White Copy Share Image
Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
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