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“We [me and husband ] had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel [Gentlemen of the Road] the year before, so all these things are kind of roiling around in my brain, and then I slipped on the ice and I broke my wrist, and it had to be surgically repaired.”

Years Kind Brain Novel Husband Ice Broke Gentleman Wrists

Author:Emily Barton

“We [me and Jennifer Salke] talked about the characters and different kinds of families and where are we today. We certainly pitched the gay couple, but we also talked about what it was like to be a single mother with a young daughter, what is it like to be a woman in your 50's who is completely starting over and dating again and having to go online to date again. We talked about the whole spectrum of the characters, but I don't think it ever came up about whether people are ready for it or not.”

“We [me and my husban] like to honor both of our family traditions whenever possible . We show the girls lots of pictures and tell a lot of stories about both of our childhoods. We also try to teach them both Portuguese and Serbian, though English is their primary language.”

Trying Stories Shows Girl Language Teach Childhood Honor Tradition Our Children Primaries Our Family Portuguese Family Tradition

Author:Adriana Lima

“We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do your thing, I'll do my thing and never the two shall meet." I think we had a healthy competition going through our childhood. But I sort of left the funny stuff to him, I said "You're the comedian, you're the jokester, you do that I'll be the more serious one." You need that kind of balance in the family.”

Thinking Needs Kind Said Two Artist Left Stuff Childhood Serious Like You Balance Healthy Husband Our Children Competition Singers Comedian My Husband Funny Stuff Healthy Competition

Author:Rachael MacFarlane

“We [me and my wife] went back to St. Paul, worked for a year - again, I guess I would have to admit now, doing a rather shaky job of teaching people - but at the end of that year we returned to England and worked in the [Bernard] Leach Pottery for two and a half years.”

People Years Two Ends Jobs Half Wife Teaching England My Wife Pottery Half A Year

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“We [me and Seth Rogen] have always wanted to work together. That was the whole point. We talked about it actively, and then we finally got the opportunity to do that, over and over again. It's kind of a dream come true.”

Kind Whole Dream Wanted Together Opportunity Working Together Dreams Come True

Author:David Krumholtz

“We [me,Maggie Smith and Natasha Richardson ] rehearsed [Suddenly, Last Summer] like a play for a month, and then we shot it over the course of... I believe it was 10 days. All live, basically. Long, uninterrupted takes. And for me, a lot of it is me going head to head with Maggie Smith. And anybody who's ever had that opportunity never forgets it! It's a real career highlight, and it was everything I ever thought it would be, and more.”

Believe Long Real Play Would Be Lasts Courses Opportunity I Believe Forget Careers Months Summer Shots Never Forget Forget It Highlights Maggie Last Summer Natasha

Author:Rob Lowe

“We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable when you think about solving these problems. And we try to challenge those assumptions.”

Thinking Trying Problem Given Challenges Cities Groups Design Smart Research Fundamentals Assumption Mit

Author:William J. Mitchell

“We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos. We're acting out our own thoughts and what we've written down on paper.”

Form Acting Written Fronts Paper Comfortable Musician Cameras Video Acting Out

Author:Ludacris

“We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.”

Hands Influence Balance Corporate Mob Rule Demagogy

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.”

Hands Lying Realizing Our Future

Author:Paul Robeson

Source: The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939

“We [My Chemical Romance] didn't push ourselves to that next level. I think we purposefully held ourselves back, feeling like maybe in order to advance, we need to regress. There was definitely a sense of fear within the band about taking that next step.”

Thinking Needs Feelings Romance Order Next Levels Steps Band Chemicals Next Steps Next Level

Author:Gerard Way

“We [Native Americans] respect being human beings, but also the natural and spiritual world and I thought that came across wonderfully and I hope a lot of people get a sense of that; not to take away that we also have that warrior spirit.”

People World Humans Spiritual Spirit Natural Human Beings Warrior Native Native American Being Human Warrior Spirit

Author:Adam Beach

“We [need to] stop treating each other like that, stop calling each other fat and stop with these unrealistic expectations for women. It’s disappointing that the media keeps it alive and fuels that fire.”

Needs Fire Alive Media Calling Expectations Feminist Fats Fuel Disappointing Unrealistic Expectations

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“We [No Doubt] were making music that was the opposite of grunge and what was popular on the radio, and we were fine with that. And for a garage band, we were massive! We were already successful in our own minds.”

Mind Successful Doubt Fine Band Opposites Radio No Doubt Massive Garage Grunge

Author:Gwen Stefani

“We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking up during songs and saying pretty ridiculous things in-between. We're having fun.”

Ifs Way Song Fun Ridiculous Having Fun Earnest Ridiculous Things Cracking Up

Author:David First

“We [Notekillers] aren't necessarily trying to be role models, but if we are, that's cool.”

Ifs Trying Roles Models Role Models

Author:David First

“We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come. The odd thing is that the right, even when it is in power, likes to think of itself as an embattled minority against this elite that somehow runs everything. Whereas the left, even when it has no power at all, likes to imagine it somehow represents the majority of people. These are mirror-image delusions.”

People Thinking Running Used Left Imagine Mirrors Majority Likes Odd Minorities Delusion Elites Odd Things Mirror Image

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real thing. And I know through reading, and through my life experience and observations that homosexuals are not given freedom and liberty by anyone in the society. They might be the most oppresed people in the society.”

People Knows Said Real Might Reading Given Liberty Movement Observation Relate Life Experience Oppressed Homosexual Real Things Freedom And Liberty Panthers Gay Liberation

Author:Huey Newton

“We [people] all need each other. Gangs do try to fill that void - but they can't do what healthy, balanced, and coherent families and communities can do. Let's strengthen our core relationships from the start - and all the way through a young person's life. This is the best way to avoid the growth of deadly and crime-involved gangs.”

People Way Needs Trying Persons Young Growth Can Do Community Crime Involved Healthy Core Best Way Void Balanced Gang

Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.”

People Needs Stories Species Make Sense

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“We [people] are made separate by the things we do or do not do. Responsibilities of all types curb us. Desire betrays us. No wound is ever truly petty. And there are so many ways to be locked apart from the rest of the world.”

People World Way Made Desire Responsibility Type Wounds Betray Locked Petty Curb

Author:Jill Alexander Essbaum

“We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Different Force Challenges Teacher Our Lives Drug Alcohol Dependent Guru

Author:Richard Bach

“We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship, going right to the edge of disaster and somehow managing to pull back and recover. But my bet is still on the creative and playful and positive in the species. I think we will manage to survive and gradually turn things around.”

People Thinking Wells Persons Stills Turns Creative Environment Species Edges Disaster Ships Manage

Author:Richard Bach

“We [people] love ourselves with conditions. We need opinions, we need approval, we create an image of ourselves that is not what we are. This how we lose our authenticity and create masks - how we become "domesticated."”

People Needs Loses Opinion Conditions Authenticity Mask Approval

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!”

People May Enjoy Strange Creator Instance Sense Of Humor Fleeting Beauty Of Life Destroyers Compost

Author:Sam Keen

“We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.”

People Needs Believe Together I Believe Crazy Don't Believe Folks Living Together

Author:Jeremiah Wright

“We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.”

People Feelings Lenses Insignificant

Author:Nichole Nordeman

“We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.”

Should Trying Tools Photographer Truthful

Author:Petra Collins

“We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].”

Trying Important Book Stories Stuff Share Crazy Goes On Finished Maps Pioneers Anecdotes Databases

Author:Terence McKenna

“We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.”

Water Silence Sun Sea I Realized Sand Flutes

Author:Albert Camus

“We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same.”

People Knows Stills Two Different Wanted Turns Novel Storytelling Mediums Visuals Frank Graphic Graphic Novels Visual Storytelling

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume so would be to be guilty of blasphemy. Only God satisfies the hungry heart. Marriage is but one of the channels He uses to enable us to taste how deeply satisfying His thirst-quenching grace can be.”

“We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its root in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate.”

People Knows Standing Roots Absolutes Insecurity Not Alone Poignant Standing Alone Certitude Hearsay

Author:Bruce Lee

“We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play”

Ifs Play Doors Policy Band

Author:Ringo Starr

“We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.”

People States Government Names United Power United States Masters Exercise Authority Glory Loyalty Command Servant Sovereign Restriction

Author:Charles Evans Hughes

“We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.”

Life Inspirational Able Inspirational Life Shoulders Giants Latter Dwarves

Author:Bernard of Chartres

“We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.”

Felt Path Rocks Band Tension Rock And Roll Replacements

Author:Paul Westerberg

“We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.”

Thinking Should Years Looks Made School Tree Middle Rocks Couple Band Economics Should Have Granted Shakes Idle Rock And Roll Back When Ripped Replacements

Author:Paul Westerberg

“We [the Republicans] help the middle class when we unburden them from the very policies that Hillary Clinton would double down on. She champions Big Government, which we know enables crony capitalism and exacerbates inequality. If you are wealthy, powerful and well-connected, you can handle Big Government.”

“We [the Subban brothers] are role models to a lot of kids, not just black kids, but all kids out there and that's what we want to be known for.”

Want Kids Black Known Roles Brother Models Role Models

Author:P. K. Subban

“We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.”

Thinking Needs Government Form Ill Attempting Forms Of Government Tailored

Author:Ralph Peters

“We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here.”

May Country States United United States Models Impact Elsewhere Other Countries

Author:Joel Klein

“We [the United States] are the world's only superpower right now, so everyone notices every bit of what we do or don't do.”

World States Bits United United States Right Now Superpower

Author:Michael Beschloss

“We [The United States] believe the Iranian people want a future of freedom and human rights: the right to vote, to run for office, to express their views without fear and to pursue political causes. We would welcome the progress, prosperity and freedom of the Iranian people.”

People Want Believe Humans States Running Political Causes United Views United States Rights Progress Office Vote Human Rights Prosperity Pursue Welcome Iranian Right To Vote

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“We [The United States] should be prepared to launch a pre-emption strike against Iran to eliminate their nuclear capability.”

Support Policy Nuclear Proliferation Nuclear Proliferation

Author:Fred Thompson

“We [the USA] do have a big nation's problem. We have the problem of a nation that's got two oceans, oceans on either side. People come from all across the globe and want to live here and they want to work here and they want to invest here. And that's a good thing. And they make up this country. But as a people, we [americans] are not highly skilled in languages. We're not highly skilled in knowledge of other cultures. And that's a problem.”

People Want Two Country Problem Bigs Culture Language Nations Sides Ocean Good Things Usa Globes Other Cultures

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“We [the USA] have a $16 trillion debt which these tax increases will do nothing to solve and you will have at least 200,000 less jobs next year than you have now. And the people who vote for that will be responsible for that decision and they will held accountable for that terrible public policy.”

People Years Jobs Next Decision Policy Terrible Taxes Vote Increase Responsible Solve Debt Usa Next Year Being Responsible Public Policy Tax Increases

Author:Marco Rubio

“We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.”

Ifs Kind Together Too Much Findings Faults All Kinds Mutual Indulge Trifles Indulge In Fault Finding

Author:Joseph Stalin

“We [United States] are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.”

Long Ideas States Problem Lasts Guy United United States Military Ought No Idea Bad Guys Superpower

Author:William J. Clinton

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