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“I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Firsts Made Book Reading Wonderful Reader

Author:Neil Gaiman

“For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill. The concept made me nauseous. But it also felt real, and rang bells with my more cynical side.”

Humans Made Real Felt Sides Rooms Gun Concepts Cynical Bells Loaded Fees Loaded Gun

Author:Eli Roth

“The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.”

Made Use Government Political Decision Cities Military Perception Bases Nuclear Enormous Bombs Atoms Arsenal Atom Bomb

Book:A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

“I think the American people were saying we do not want to have further investigation. We want to close this off. They clearly made a separation between the personal conduct .. They want Congress to wrap it up, get it behind them, so we can get on to the issues that the president has been working with Congress.”

People Thinking Want Has Beens Made President Behinds Issues Congress Separation Investigation Wraps

Author:Roy Romer

“The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.”

Way Should Firsts Made Artist Felt Simple Understood Simplicity Details Spectators Superfluous Elimination Beholder Motifs Simple Ways

Author:Alfred Sisley

“Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.”

Firsts May Made Important Faces Common New York Red Tasks Democratic Wave Hearing Common Sense Welcome Flags Speakers Abyss Red Flags Subpoenas

Author:Charles Schumer

“In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.”

“This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to adolescence can direct young people away from violence toward healthy and constructive lives.”

People Made Young Violence Youth Healthy Research Direct Appropriate Adolescence Intervention Constructive Let Down

Author:David Satcher

“When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.”

World Has Beens Made Running Used Race Seeing Havens Example Errors Accidents Champion Racing Weekend Nevertheless Traps Circuits Horrific World Champions Gravel Schumacher

Author:Jackie Stewart

“After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They're more interested in the possible than the probable, the private that speaks publicly rather than the public with no private side at all.”

Art Made Artist Speak Sides Too Much Blind

Author:Jerry Saltz

“I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It's watering things down.”

Way Art Made Shows Bigs Audience Heard Findings Happenings Bigger Statements Stopping Filling Gallery

Author:Jerry Saltz

“There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.”

Made Stories Literature Comedy Jokes Folks Glorious Allowing Jamaicans

Author:Neil Gaiman

“People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.”

People Men Trying Made Mother Disaster Mother Nature

Author:Larry Sabato

“Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.”

Made Cost Errors Harm Settling

Author:H. Lee Scott, Jr.

“I made Simon Cowell look stupid once. He is terrified of presenting so I gave him the microphone and walked away. He hates interviewing people it means the focus is off him.”

People Looks Mean Made Hate Focus Stupid Terrified Presenting Microphones

Author:Ryan Seacrest

“The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.”

Thinking Made Easy Weak Wings Foolish Heels Steel Eagles Claws

Author:Sidney Sheldon

“You never know what`s going to be big. It`s the fans. It was just a Disney Channel Movie and the kids made it huge... For High School Musical 2 (2007) (TV), we just wanted to have fun and make something together.”

Knows Made Bigs Kids Wanted School Together Fun Fans Tvs Huge High School Musical Made It Having Fun High School Musical Disney Channel

Author:Ashley Tisdale

“It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense.”

Littles Doe Made Trouble Materials Paint Size Expenses Customs Splits Canvas Worms Convenience Venice

Book:The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

Source: The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

“My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.”

People Looks Art Made Done Political Social Possibility Position Ready Originals New Possibilities

Author:Ai Weiwei

“We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.”

World Made Community Walking Tiny Landscape Bacteria Shimmer

Book:Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors

Source: Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors

“One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like about myself, I accept. People have made fun of me and made me self-conscious about talking so softly, for example, but I accept that as who I am and I'm not changing it for anybody. I'm at peace with who I am now, and once you've achieved that, all the other stuff disappears.”

People Made Self Done Fun Stuff Talking Accepting Example Conscious Disappear Who I Am Flaws Self Conscious How To Love Love Myself

Author:Ricky Williams

“There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.”

Made Country Might Age Notes Proof Quotations

Author:Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

“I didn't really want to kill myself, it just made me feel better to know I could if I wanted to.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Made Wanted Feel Better

Author:Marc Maron

“If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.”

Ifs Thinking Want Made Wake Up Perseverance Stomach Make You Think

Author:Sherry Lansing

“I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with the way things are being done now.”

Way Made Done Realizing Mistake Upset Penalties Abstraction Death Penalty Being Done

Author:Michael Baden

“We've made clear our view, which is we support the Russian proposal. It's within the context of the EU diplomacy aimed at getting Iran to re-suspend its enrichment activities and return to negotiations.”

Made Views Support Clear Return Activity Iran Negotiation Diplomacy Proposal Enrichment

Author:Joseph Adam Ereli

“As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.”

Believe Made Decision Situation Tough Appreciate Mama Grandma Heartbreaking Sanctity Sanctity Of Life Tough Situations

Author:Carole Keeton

“There is no truth to the rumors that we hate each other. I have no ill feeling for [Britney Spears] and vice versa. I am proud of all the achievements she has made in her career, she is a very hard-working person. I have nothing but love for her.”

Persons Made Hard Feelings Hate Careers Hard Work Proud Achievement Ill Vices Rumor Vice Versa Spears Love For Her Ill Feelings

Author:Christina Aguilera

“I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or good filmmaking. It's something else that has nothing to do with what you've done. This is in 1999, made by people in 1999 for people in 1999 about people in 1999.”

People Made Done Acting Filmmaker Filmmaking Parting Good Acting

Author:Sam Mendes

“Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.”

Made Two Political Grows Born Class Doors Communication Members Majority Composition Admission

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.”

Men Made Squares Salt Crystals Cubism

Author:Josef Albers

“Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”

Made Wealth Cases Economy Advantage Prosperity Contrary Finance Persuasive

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.”

Has Beens Made War Names Interest Progress Materials Civilization Sacred Trade Connected

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.”

Made Whole Young Girl Parent Ability Missing Needed Draws Drawing Whole Life Indispensable Restoration Bourgeois Woven Tapestry

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.”

Made Past Causes Realizing Critical Accidents Fortunate Damage Crew Columbia Foam Roulette Russian Roulette

Author:Wayne Hale

“Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.”

Men Made Building Boat Landscape Etc Construction Man Made Things

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city or a nation, and rule it according to his or their private interest; which, because the laws in such cases are made according to the interest of a man, or of some few families, may be said to be the empire of men, and not of laws.”

Men May Art Made Said Government Law Nations Interest Cities Cases Modern Subjects Empires Prudence

Book:Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'

Source: Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'

“It's just that [the Hawks have made] a lot of changes. A lot of their great players have moved on. They have a lot of new faces and a lot of young guys who are going to be a part of this team for a long time. It'll take time. They've got a nice little core to start with.”

Littles Long Made Faces Young Guy Nice Player Team Long Time Moved Core Take Time Hawks Moved On Young Guys New Faces

Author:Mike Modano

“The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.”

Art Made Wonder Pursuit Painter Landscape Alluring Wonder Of Nature

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.”

Made Live Life Holiness

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.”

Made Soul Moments Past Stuff Process Memories Becoming

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.”

Made Woods Block Sculpture Mercury

Author:Apuleius

“The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.”

Made Stories Jesus Religious Moral Betrayal Made It Sentiments Vicious Persistent Judas Rationale

Author:Elaine Pagels

“All the money was spent for the 'Concept Plan' document, which made reasonable recommendations for developments. Now that's kind of being forgotten. That's why I think the public trust is being betrayed.”

Thinking Kind Made Plans Development Concepts Forgotten Betrayal Reasonable Documents Betrayed Recommendations Public Trust Being Betrayed

Author:Stephen F. Hayes

“You can't control the weather, but there are definitely things you can do to protect yourself and the investment you've made in your boat. The key is to get started early so you have the supplies you need and you have a plan for what you're going to do with your boat.”

Needs Made Can Do Plans Keys Protect Investment Weather Boat Supplies Protect Yourself

Author:Scott Hall

“I never pay attention to errors in the Minor Leagues. Derek Jeter made 43 errors in the South Atlantic League, and I didn't care. With his hands and his range, I don't worry about that with Zimmerman. He is a good defensive player.”

Made Hands Care Pay Attention Worry Player Errors South Pay Attention Range League Minors Jeter Zimmerman

Author:Jim Bowden

“If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Kind Made Stories Bigs Sound Happened Messages Clever Made It Boast Cleverness

Author:Dave Gorman

“The lesson from Hurricane Katrina was communication, communication, communication, .. Public safety has to be a priority. Then we can go to constituents and start talking about investments that have to be made in upgrading the networks.”

Made Talking Communication Lessons Safety Investment Priorities Hurricanes Constituents Katrina Hurricane Katrina Public Safety Upgrading

Author:Mufi Hannemann

“Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints.”

Made Today Easy Chance Errors Complaints Roger Federer

Author:Gael Monfils

“China's diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development,.”

World Made Common Development China Serving Diplomacy Contributing

Author:Li Zhaoxing

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