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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality. Ian Mckellen
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My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'. Will Poulter
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Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning. Wendy Kopp
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There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay. Zubin Mehta
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When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125. Yani Tseng
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I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it. Colin Baker
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I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing. Chris Carter
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I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table! Emma Watson
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Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him. Elizabeth Wurtzel
believed stayed
My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me. Tina Turner
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I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage. Gail Kelly
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'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul. Gina Prince-Bythewood
believed bit sports
I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck. Gareth Bale
believed good harder liked oh
Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us. Zadie Smith
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world. Yotam Ottolenghi
believed hard knew music shows
When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot. Wesley Schultz
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'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium. Wesley Morris
believe form god praise
I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God. Billy Graham
billion
Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day. Donald Trump
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The point that we're making is, if we're trying to raise the price of cigarettes to discourage smoking cigarettes that's one thing, but if we're raising taxes for tens of billions of dollars for spending, then why not give part of it back? Phil Gramm
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Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. Barack Obama
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The $3 billion size should keep it comfortably within an already crowded 5-year sector. Speculation that Fannie would choose a 3-year may have been thwarted by the glut of 3-year sovereigns this week. Jim Vogel
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The $3-billion investment in four projects will employ thousands of people and generate billions of dollars of foreign exchange for Bangladesh.
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The acquisition creates new opportunities to further reinvest in and improve our portfolio, enabling over US$2 billion of new redevelopments to be initiated in the next four years.
billion business dvd whip
The $8 billion (rental) business isn't going to disappear. This isn't buggy whip time. Everybody's got a DVD player.
billion quite target
The $60-$80 billion target by 2010 is, therefore, quite attainable, I think. Dmitry Medvedev
billion concerns giving iraq people serious
The American people already have serious concerns about the Bush-Cheney administration giving Halliburton $7 billion in no-bid Iraq contracts,
blank call
When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script. Edward Norton
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What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture. Neneh Cherry
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John Roberts is no longer a blank slate, he has an extensive record and that record is far outside the mainstream.
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I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on. Mark Gatiss
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold. Dan Brown
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We proved they were valid. By linking computerized sleuthing to laboratory experiments to confirm those findings, we expect to be able to eventually fill in many blanks in human protein-protein interactions.
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We'll get there the day before and do some promotional work regarding our features. We'll get together and figure out how we're going to do the promotions. But everything is a blank canvas right now. Rece Davis
blank change known life people throughout
Throughout my life, I've known that if I change my hair, if I change my look, people I know will blank me in the street. Hattie Morahan
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I was sitting here on this blanket so, here's the truck - maybe 6 feet.
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I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.
checked decided pilot point
The pilot at that point decided to get it checked out.
check final images third
I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof. Clyde Tombaugh
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The misconception about Foursquare is that it's just hipsters in New York and San Francisco checking in at bars. It's happening all over the world. I've seen huge growth in Europe, Japan, South America. Dennis Crowley
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Every check-in should mean something. Foursquare should get smarter every time that you continue to check in. We should be able to offer special deals that you may be interested in, and we should be able to offer recommendations for the type of things you should do next.
check gut
That was a gut check to say the least. Jon Gruden
checks people respect signing whether
Be very professional because it will get you a lot further. You have to treat people with the same respect whether they're signing your checks or cleaning up after you. Raven-Symone
check run shoulder
I live in a beautiful part of British Columbia, and I run through the rainforest. I do have to look over my shoulder to check for a cougar or a wolf though, so sometimes it's not the most relaxing. Ruth Ozeki
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The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
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Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst. Gallagher
city french-athlete game passion
My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad. Zinedine Zidane
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A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.
city enjoy love
I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict. Chris Bohjalian
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists. Walter Kirn
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I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as a place of culture and the arts, as a magnet for immigrants, for entrepreneurs, for animal lovers, and for gays, as a city of parks and trails, and as the sort of place that figures in young people's dreams.
city frankly people turn
The alternative is to take what are frankly some of the neediest people in the city and turn them out into the street.
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That will save the city hundred of thousands of dollars over the life of the loan, plus the closing costs.
either witch
I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor. Yahya Jammeh
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Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs. Henry David Thoreau
either marriage married unhappy year
It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.
either experience graduate require work
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
either
When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler. Chris Jericho
either felt front good
I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.
either everybody fit struggles trying
Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing. Naomie Harris
either enormous side time
The advocates for either side are under enormous pressure, and, of course, they're being pretty snippy with each other from time to time. Bill Clinton
either game learn tough
That was a game that was up for grabs for either team. It's a tough loss. We have to learn not to take that many penalties.
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And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan. Gianni Agnelli
expect terrible time
I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. Virginia Postrel
expect pavement planners underneath vehicles
The pavement underneath the asphalt is crumbling. The drainage wasn't that particularly good. The planners back in the 1960's expect only 150,000 vehicles a day.
expect past pitching three weeks
The past two or three weeks we've pitched it the way I thought we would from the get-go. This is also the kind of pitching I expect from Mitre. Mike Quade
expectations people trying
People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby. Bill Bruford
expectations speech
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. Bill Bradley
expecting hope kicks percent profit small year
The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.
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The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit.
expecting launch spike
The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,
floor knees legs model
I was a floor model at I. Magnin. I'm 5 feet 7, but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long, but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9. Grace Slick
floor opened spread
The 3s really opened it up for us. We were able to spread the floor and find better shots. Jason Boyd
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That was a good heads-up play by her. The ball's rolling around the floor and we're all like, 'Pick it up! Pick it up!' She gets it and sees Jamie. It was a great pass. That was a huge play.
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We have to understand that when we hit the floor we have to be ready to go and tonight we weren't ready.
floor foster meet open people room
We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It's an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what's going on. Mark Zuckerberg
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I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale. Richard Eyre
floor plant running
We have the first one running around on our plant floor now. Tom Doyle
floor happen knowing point projected team
We have too many injuries, and we didn't have any way of knowing this was going to happen to us. The team we have on the floor right now is not the team we projected having at this point in the season.
floor limited space
We're really limited by the space in our gallery. We can only take about 110 entries and get them up and have them look good, without being floor to ceiling.
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When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
national save
The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.
national nine school students theater
I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense. Francois Arnaud
nations order people understand united
The American people understand that in order to get an organization like the United Nations to reform, there must be consequences. Dana Rohrabacher
national people proud saying today
We have the right to be proud in saying that today was a day of national consensus, ... So congratulations to our people for their constitution. Jalal Talabani
nation people ukrainian
Today, the Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian people have won. The Ukrainian people have won, Viktor Yushchenko
nation nonsense partisan ruining
We just can't put up with it anymore. The partisan nonsense that is ruining our nation has to stop. Mike McGavick
national top winning within
Winning a national championship. You really can't top that. ... I feel like I'll be kind of underachieving within myself if I don't win a championship before I leave. Maurice Ager
nations purpose serve united
Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?
orleans
We can't go back to New Orleans because there's nothing left, Katie Johnson
orleans seen
We have never seen this in the New Orleans district.
orleans
When you think about it, there's not much between New Orleans and Atlanta. We're going to need shelters here.
orleans
We are New Orleans folk. We aren't going anywhere.
orleans search son stay
Our son is a first respondor and had to stay back in New Orleans and do search and rescue, Warren Williams
orleans people service shelter vitally
or any other humanitarian service organizations because it's vitally important to the people of New Orleans and the surrounding parishes who need food, shelter and clothing.
orleans people saints trying
But it's not about the New Orleans Saints now. It's about all those people on those cots trying to find their kids. Joe Horn
orleans rebuild
I would not rebuild New Orleans where it is.
orleans parents people return start symbolizes
Now, parents will start to return to the city. I think this symbolizes to a lot of people that, yes, New Orleans is back and will accommodate families.
ourselves prosper seize time
We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well. Christine Gregoire
ourselves serves
We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.
ourselves saving
The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace. Martin Parr
ourselves
We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying. Tracy Morgan
ourselves run shot
We could never get a run going. We shot ourselves in the foot.
ourselves
We were going pretty well there for a bit. And all of a sudden, we've been sliding. We just have to find a way to get ourselves out of it.
ourselves since
We have come a long way since we established ourselves here in May 2003.
ourselves trying
We?re still trying to find ourselves on the mound.
ourselves slip
You know if you don't do something in a big hurry, it's all going to slip away. We need to do something about it to make it stop. We got ourselves in it. We've got to get ourselves out of it.
oversight respect responsibility
We are reasserting congressional responsibility of oversight with respect to this program. Olympia Snowe
oversight respect responsibility
We are reasserting congressional responsibility and oversight with respect to this program.
oversight
It was an oversight that they were not on the list. It was a mistake. Robert Morse
projects
All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent. Christo
projects
I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame. Jennifer Connelly
projects shutting wait
We are not shutting down all our projects while we wait for an answer.
projects shown wish
We do wish to try to have as many different students' projects shown as possible.
projects running time
I have hundreds of projects that I want to do, and I'm running out of time - so they'll never get done, I'm afraid. George Lucas
projects
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected Byron Katie
projects interest i-can
Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do. Al Pacino
projects jagger
Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project. Ato Essandoh
projects suspect worthy
While many of the projects may have been worthy of consideration, the way they were funded makes them suspect in the public's mind,
protection routes supposed
I thought Jesse did all right, considering some things. We had some routes that weren't where they were supposed to be and protection problems.
protection seeing software standard time viruses
We do have standard protection on every desktop. But shoot, we're seeing viruses all the time that our software doesn't catch.
protection starts
It all starts with the protection of the victim. Curtis Sliwa
protection cramps valuable
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively. Carl Jung
protection
It's all been satirized for your protection. Bill Maher
protection heroines novel
If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? Jane Austen
protection gallery amendments
When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration. Arlen Specter
protection social
We want this Bolkestein directive off the table. Social protection will be its only victim. Peter Mueller
protection receiving
Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.
restoring
Relationships are always worth restoring. Rick Warren
save
If my closet were burning, it'd be my collection of jackets I would save - they always make me feel pulled-together. Nina Garcia
save
The $25,000 is about what we save the first year.
saved
I was the one who saved the town.
save
You do a little, we do a little, we all save a lot. Joseph Roth
save sufficient
What we have is better than nothing, but it may not be sufficient to save the lake.
save trying
He's just trying to save his own skin.
saved score struggling
He saved us with that effort, ... especially the way we've been struggling to score runs. Bruce Bochy
saved year
He saved the year for us with that tackle. Hines Ward
saved woke
He saved our lives. He woke up because he couldn't breathe.
vitality
My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from. Nancy Astor
vitality harmony fullness
I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality Al Jardine
vitality connections opinion
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. David Hilbert
vitality
But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there. Charles Bukowski
vitality making-money gripping
Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation. Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
vital
The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America. Walter Salles
vital
Oh, it's a vital part of the game, Dick Vitale
vital word
It's vital that we get the word out. This one is all or nothing.
vitality architect inconsistency
Inconsistency itself breeds vitality. Kenzo Tange