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RICHIE NORTON The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredibl... DIANNE WIEST The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the avera... GEORGE ORWELL When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when ... NATHAN SAWAYA Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last. GEORGE ORWELL If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration... 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KRISTEN NEWLIN Tidewater said they hadn't seen the picture, they don't know where it is, but it was described to Ti... DWIGHT LANDRY Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER It was crazy how they were making 3-pointers. Most of their points came off threes and on their 2-po... JOSH MILBOURN When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time. ELLIOTT CARTER The picture was being painted that things were not as bad as they appeared to be ELIJAH CUMMINGS I think when they brought in the new obstruction rule way back, they called it and called it, and th... DEAN MCAMMOND Gramercy Tavern appeared on the cover of New York Magazine the day we opened, and it was five deep a... DANNY MEYER For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about f... FAY WRAY They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for ... ELLEN BURSTYN They just came up with the big hits when they needed it and we missed out on a couple of opportuniti... KATHY BARKER I chose this one for the volume of the rooms. When I was a kid in Paris we had rooms like this and t... JOAN JULIET BUCK The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes... MARK TWAIN My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer... JERMAINE DUPRI Women appeared to have less expectation of a reward, which in this case was the punch line of the ca... ALLAN REISS I had fallen in love with photography and was making a living doing photographic features for public... 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JASON KIDD My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the str... DAVID GUETTA They brought the left-hander to turn Lance around and he came up with a big hit immediately, ... Lan... BRAD AUSMUS The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a ... BEN E. KING Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON The last book I picked up had a picture of the Stranger on the front cover. Although his eyes were n... MARKELLE GRABO I stared at his picture for so many hours when I was pre-teen, ... When we were doing the recording ... BOY GEORGE I stared at his picture for so many hours when I was pre-teen. When we were doing the recording for ... ANTONY HEGARTY I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when ... LAURA LEIGHTON I was in college and had a group called the Royal Flairs. We opened for the Stones when they appeare... BOB EVERHART We have five kids that never came off the court, ... I know they were tired, but they showed a lot o... CATHERINE YOUNG I wasn't pleased with the way they were playing and I told them they needed to pick up the intensity... DEBBIE SKELLY I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what ... ADAM MCKAY When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it... BRODERICK CRAWFORD Well, about five years ago, when I was invited to the Pentagon, they were still saying that, only 1.... JAMES WILLIAMS I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when ... J.D. SALINGER And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it? ... No Face... a pe... DEYTH BANGER I saw everybody in front of me, and their eyes were going crazy. It was a scary five or six seconds.... MARTIN BRODEUR In the racial picture things will never be as they once were. History has reached a turning point, h... MEDGAR EVERS A producer I had worked with (David Kahne) got the gig with Paul and brought me in and then, that wa... RUSTY ANDERSON I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?'... GWEN STEFANI I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger, ... Loved it from the literary point of view. But if some... BONNIE HAMMER We did a Girl Scout troop five years ago, and it was so fulfilling working with the kids. Even the o... GWEN FERGUSON I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there... ANDIE MACDOWELL I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacke... KIRK DOUGLAS When we got there to the hospital, there was a lot of action, people going in and out of the room. T... KANDY MENDOCK Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Rep... MIKE ROYKO It wasn't exactly uplifting, ... but it was a story told within a context in which people had someth... ELIZABETH FULLER Our Easters were elaborate productions with these big Easter Egg hunts out in the woods, and it was ... NICK CAVE It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA When I went to Paris, I had a lot of ideas about it that were formed in the sort of ether that flows... ROSECRANS BALDWIN It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in ... HANNAH ARENDT [My Dad is 100 Years Old also touches on a controversy impossible to understand in today's moral cli... ISABELLA ROSSELLINI I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play... GEORGE STEVENS It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in h... MADELINE MILLER At least this game, we were in it. They had the cushion in the second half, but it wasn't a 30-point... SCOTT DREW Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. GEORGE ORWELL Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. GEORGE ORWELL That's a big chunk of who we are and what we do, but everybody else filled in the gaps. It was almos... ANTONIO DANIELS They would just follow whatever I did. They had no say in anything. Grier was an eight-year vet, and... DEREK ROY People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving. IMAN The thing about 'Watchmen' that people should know is that when it came out there was absolu... GERARD WAY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. When I moved to L.A. a few years ago, my sister hung out with a couple of people with big followings... LUCKY BLUE SMITH I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of t... BERENICE MARLOHE The cover was pebbled black leather, the pages onionskin, and he opened it carefully. It was his fir... CHARLES L. GRANT Cal had told her all girls had it, it was natural as breathing, it was a sign they were growing up, ... HARPER LEE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel r... KELLY JONES 'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wo... C. S. LEWIS
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INGRID BETANCOURT Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. An... INGRID BETANCOURT The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with for... INGRID BETANCOURT I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive. INGRID BETANCOURT In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life... INGRID BETANCOURT Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart. INGRID BETANCOURT The relationship with time changes when you're captive. INGRID BETANCOURT Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to b... INGRID NEWKIRK To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering. INGRID NEWKIRK Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match INGRID BENGIS Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight ... INGRID NEWKIRK Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed th... INGRID NEWKIRK U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions wi... INGRID NEWKIRK For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. INGRID BENGIS The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you c... INGRID BETANCOURT Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and l... INGRID NEWKIRK By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also ... INGRID NEWKIRK Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruis... INGRID NEWKIRK Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped chi... INGRID NEWKIRK The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind. INGRID NEWKIRK Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are bot... INGRID NEWKIRK I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking. INGRID BETANCOURT During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there... INGRID BETANCOURT I never say no to an ice cream. INGRID BETANCOURT In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness. INGRID BETANCOURT As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my childre... INGRID BETANCOURT The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the... INGRID BENGIS We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important a... INGRID NEWKIRK The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the... INGRID BENGIS All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good ... INGRID NEWKIRK Prison agrees with me. There's no hypocrisy here. Kill or be killed, and everybody knows it. INGRID MAGNUSSEN Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dai... INGRID NEWKIRK Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the was... INGRID NEWKIRK One of the big factors was one of the largest conventions in town is not in town. Those folks used t... INGRID REISMAN She has worn fur, so the innocent did not get hurt. It wasn't friendly fire. INGRID NEWKIRK We're asking kids to get hooked on kindness, not killing, INGRID NEWKIRK We keep our chops up and inspire each other. That is the best way to keep it up, by playing with peo... INGRID JENSEN Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured anima... INGRID NEWKIRK a great way to bring about animal liberation. INGRID NEWKIRK