Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
Joseph Addison
Recitation: by Male by Female
My first car was a little white Volkswagen City Golf. They've just been discontinued in South Africa, but they were the staple first car for most of my peer group. It's the most entry-level four-door four-seater that Volkswagen ever made. I named him Doug. I don't know why.
Jodi Balfour
CarCityGolfWhiteKnowGroup
I have been working hard trying to implement Dodd-Frank reforms. We went through a terrible crisis in 2008. Many people lost their homes.
Maxine Waters
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Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
Robert McChesney
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From the time you were signed at MGM you just felt you were in God's hands.
Ann Rutherford
GodTimeHandsYouJustFelt
The way that customers pay businesses is constantly evolving. Instead of paying with paper, like cash and checks, businesses are expected to accept a variety of payment methods ranging from credit cards to digital payments.
John Rampton
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Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.
Stewart Alsop
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My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.
Roz Chast
SingleLinePunchJustCartoons
I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.
Michael Sheen
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I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.
David Shields
RelationshipAngerThinkGeniusWay
Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.
Bruno Dumont
ChangeMemoriesGreatMindMeShe
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
Thomas Sowell
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Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
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