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• I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.

  Jim Dine

  Blood, Suffering, Done

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• I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

  Morris Graves

  Painting, Conviction, Let Me

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• It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

  Morris Graves

  Prayer, Dedication, Wind

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• I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better appreciation for the fact that if any community is going to prosper, if any community is going to be seen at its best, that the women in that community have to be viewed as equally as important as the men. And [women] have to be able to live outside of boundaries that are placed on them because of their gender. As well as their race or their religion.

  Anita Hill

  Appreciation, Communication, Men

  "Then & Now: Anita Hill". www.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

  Sterling Hayden

  Men, Actors, Want

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.43, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.

  Gary Larson

  Teacher, Strong, School

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• If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Thinking, Risk, Nuclear

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• I'm as excited as a kid with a new toy to be able to create a unique, exciting, urban superhero for a magazine that I respect as much as VIBE.

  Stan Lee

  Kids, Unique, Superhero

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• I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.

  Farley Mowat

  Writing, Goes On, Obsession

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• I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

  Kylie Minogue

  Eight, Years, Dressing Up

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• It's always a fun collaboration with my brother. I'm very fortunate to be able to work with him. There's an honesty to collaboration. There's a lack of a gender or ego in our conversations. And so you can really throw anything around.

  Christopher Nolan

  Brother, Honesty, Fun

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• If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family property, he may be made separate ,by the others receiving a trifle out of his share to live upon.

  Guru Nanak

  Brother, Desire, Receiving

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• If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.

  Marco Polo

  Christian, Kings, Together

  Marco Polo, William Marsden (1926). “The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian”, Doubleday

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• Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.

  Rick Perry

  Light, Government, Honest

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• We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.

  Janet Reno

  Mean, Knowing, Action

  "World Today" with John Zarrella, www.cnn.com. April 13, 2000.

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• The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

  Janet Reno

  Success, America, Justice

  "Janet Reno's Choice". Janet Reno's speech before the American Law Institute in Philadelphia, PA, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 1994.

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• I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they are driven somewhere. I want them to grow up in an environment that is not just a place where people sleep but where people work.. and where people enjoy themselves.

  Moshe Safdie

  Children, Growing Up, Sleep

  Moshe Safdie, John Kettle (1987). “Beyond Habitat by 20 years”

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• Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Brave, France, Compromise

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• It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,.

  Todd Solondz

  Littles, Kind, Conceit

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• People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  People, Quality, Want

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• I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".

  Karl Urban

  Book, Reading, Imagination

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• I love kids, and I'm great with them, but I also love being able to give them back.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Kids, Love Is, Giving

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• We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

  Douglas Wilson

  Art, Design, Generations

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• I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.

  James Wolfe

  Cancer, Mean, One Day

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• I think every single point will be important, .. I think more than anything, I'll just have to be able to compete better. When you're playing Serena Williams, you have to compete better than her. I got a lot of tricks from Serena just watching her. She inspired me so many times. I also got motivated by her in the early part of my career, and even now. I just have to compete better, bottom line.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Careers, Important

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