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• Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.

  Brit Hume

  Night, Organization, Tuesday

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• I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. Ice Ice Baby is about that area.

  Vanilla Ice

  Baby, Florida, Texas

  "Is this it?". Interview with Alex Rayner, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2007.

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• After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.

  Steve Israel

  New York, Availability, Saws

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• Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Teaching, Skills

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• I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

  Naveen Jain

  Successful, Moon, Skills

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• I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Memories, School, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

  Joan Jett

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

  James Earl Jones

  Kids, Thinking, Agriculture

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

  Jay-Z

  Growing Up, Phones, People

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• When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

  John F. Kennedy

  Patriotic, Power, Men

  Remarks upon receiving an honorary degree from Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., 26 Oct. 1963

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• Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

  Mark Kennedy

  Country, Eight, Engineering

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• My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Different, Conventional

  "Years of Minutes"‎ by Andy Rooney, (p. 331), 2004.

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• In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

  Imran Khan

  Country, Moving, People

  "The path of Khan" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

  Imran Khan

  Thinking, Play, People

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• A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.

  Alveda King

  Children, Abortion, Majority

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• In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Dollars, Finance

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• The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Certainty, Consensus, Exploding

  Interview with Marcus Fairs, www.iconeye.com. June 2004.

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• Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, School, Cities

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• The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, New York, Children

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• There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teaching, School, People

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• In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Jobs, People, Cleveland

  "Interview with Representative Dennis Kucinich". Interview With John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 30, 2011.

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• We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

  William Labov

  Focus, Different, Pairs

  Interview with Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 12, 2005.

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• Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Song, Singing, Body

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• Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

  Jessica Lange

  Twelve, France, Rage

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• I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.

  Denis Leary

  Beach, Venice, Lots Of Friends

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