You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.
Christina Baker Kline
Recitation: by Male by Female
In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.
Anatoly Chubais
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Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.
Robert Rodriguez
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It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
Jean Racine
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Your kids have these big emotions they can't put into words.
John Ross Bowie
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Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.
Steve Winwood
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
Tom Waits
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I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.
Roger Michell
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I'm a big supporter of President Obama.
Russell Simmons
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I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.
Joss Whedon
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A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.
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Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.
Jared Diamond
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.
Diane Ackerman
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