We did not pay for favors.
Jay Y. Lee
Recitation: by Male by Female
I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.
Jesse Ventura
WaterDeathAirplaneFeetDoneOut
Pictures of entire lives, of the choices that people make and how those choices work out for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get.
Robert J. Waldinger
WorkPeopleImpossibleChoicesOut
With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.
Jeff Goodell
WaterFoodFallLookAustraliaWill
Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be.
Michael Gove
LawAcceptNeverMexicoUnited
Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as an air raid warden for 15 days. Our government surrendered, Hong Kong Government surrendered, so I took a junk and came to Macau in 16 hours and I was a refugee, so that's why I was so much indebted to Macau.
Stanley Ho
GovernmentWarWhyHong KongAir
When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.'
Stacy Schiff
FriendCourageBookTalkingOkay
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
Steven Wright
DriveWorryFastWayCholesterol
What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.
Tony Blair
PeoplePartyUnderstandShouldAdore
When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.
Tony DiTerlizzi
TechnologyMindSurviveEvolution
I had never had a particularly warm feeling about Richard Nixon, and it didn't get any warmer after my service.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
ServiceWarmFeelingNeverGetAny
The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.
Jayne Meadows
BestPeopleObstaclesKnowOvercome
Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.
Chuck Palahniuk
ReligionPeopleLoseIntellectual
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