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“I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.”

Done Names Grew Grew Up Horse Athlete Clubs Dancer Gratification Riders Surf Swimmer

Author:Sharni Vinson

“I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!”

Writing Names My Own Draws

Author:Alexander Wang

“So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.”

Names Born Design Competition Raised Architect Submission Memorial Premises Virginia Born And Raised

Author:Amy Waldman

“I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.”

Thinking Want Different Artist Names

Author:Chely Wright

“I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.”

Shows Names Iron Chef Food Love I Love Food Iron Chef

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.”

Ifs Writing Book Might Romance Culture Names Forget Lucky Paper Pops Lists Ignorant Spells Topics Lit Fascination Pop Culture Chicks New Yorkers

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.”

Names Numbers Example Benefits Conventions Serials Geneva Pow Cooperating Geneva Convention

Author:John Yoo

“Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.”

People America Names Politician Islam Misguided Malala Purdah

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.”

Names Parenthood Household Committees Cliffs Hindsight Planned Parenthood Oversight

Author:Ted Yoho

“My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.”

Long Said Names Spells Publicists

Author:Tina Yothers

“I realized that even I have weird intimacy issues with humans - like, I need my friendships to get deeper, I need to be locked in, I need to remember people's names. I know this sounds really stupid, but I just need to be more present in my life.”

People Knows Needs Humans Remember Names Sound Issues Stupid Deeper I Realized Intimacy Locked My Friendship Really Stupid

Author:Jen Kirkman

“Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.”

People Thinking Wells Real Names Deals Environment News Expecting Traps Reporters Obscure Conferences Attending Briefing

Author:Tom Brokaw

“The best thing about Ikea - I'm going to do a quiz here - the names. Do you know what a Floria Fin (ph) is? It's a candle. A Pogestra (ph) - table. A Bar Grick (ph) is a plate, an Eterleeg (ph) is a wine glass and a Scuggle (ph) is the name of my third nipple.”

Knows Names Thirds Tables Wine Glasses Bars Best Things Do You Know Candle Plates Wine Glass Nipples Fins Quiz Ikea

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“I have been accused of something I'm not guilty of. How do you prove a negative? No matter what we discuss here today, I'm never going to have my name restored. But I've got to try and set the record straight.”

Trying Has Beens Matter Today Names Records Prove Negative No Matter What Guilty Accused Not Guilty

Author:Jim Lehrer

“I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out.”

Thinking Done Together Song Next Names Six Seven Coming Out Princess Diaries Soundtracks Compilation Princess Diaries

Author:Christy Carlson Romano

“Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.”

Giving Humans Children Art Life Is Lying Names Building Our Children Beach Your Children Aesthetic Sophisticated Being Human Humanistic Sandcastles

Author:Calvin Seerveld

“Kundalini is the life force. It is given different names. They call it prana. They divide it into different segments, the apana and the samana; sometimes it's called shakti. Nice names, it is energy.”

Different Sometimes Names Energy Given Force Nice Buddhism Divides Different Names Prana Shakti

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column.”

Running Names Energy Buddhism Nerves Columns Sanskrit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.”

People Thinking Trying States Certain Names Term Consciousness Hinduism Goddess States Of Consciousness Gods And Goddesses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”

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“I'm saying that the leaders of the church have locked the sacred cow called science in the stable and they won't let anybody enter; they should open it immediately so that we can milk that cow in the name of humanity and thus find the truth.”

Should Science Humanity Names Church Leader Accounts Sacred Milk Cows Stable Locked Science And Religion Sacred Cows

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.”

Men Lasts Time Jesus Names Lost Parent Loses Church Hardest Irony Ministry Christian Ministry

Author:Vance Havner

“As you awaken, may your dreams greet you by name, and may you answer, "Yes!"”

Inspirational May Dream Names Answers Positive Adventure Personal Growth Your Dreams Hypocrite Heartfelt

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.”

“Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or decaying! Beware of the changes! Any change which is not progressive is just a rotting!”

Ifs Names Bless Progressive Rotting Deterioration

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to become children of God instead of children of flesh and blood if we have faith in His Name (cf. Jn. 1:12-13). For the Savior the sequence was, first of all, incarnation and bodily birth for my sake; and so thereupon the birth in the Spirit through baptism, originally spurned by Adam, for the sake of my salvation and restoration by grace, or, to describe it even more vividly, my very remaking.”

“Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.”

Mind Government Today Names Speak Share Internet Citizens Let Me Prison Chinese Addresses Chinese Government

Author:Tom Lantos

“The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.”

Names Left Sides Streets

Author:Charles C. Mann

“My wife is the host of Big Brother. Her name is Julie Chen, and she'll say, "Da da da,* but first* we do this." So they mashed together her saying "but first" a couple dozen times. Literally. In different outfits. And when you cut it together like that, it appears very robotlike. They called her the Chenbot.”

Firsts Different Bigs Together Names Cutting Wife Brother Couple My Wife Host Dozen Outfits

Author:Leslie Moonves

“Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.”

Names Land Species Producers Convenient Surplus

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.”

People Knows Looks Care Used Names Laughing Training Don't Care Used To Be I Don't Care Dedicated Clown Making People Laugh Being Cool Smoothies

Author:Bernie Mac

“In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.”

Writing Trying Book Names Influence Conscious Checks Prominent

Author:China Mieville

“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”

“My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.”

Children Names Lord Wall Office Mark London My Children Covered Pearls Earnest Bucks Signatures Autographs Dickens Famous Writers Tennyson Kipling

Author:Debbie Macomber

“What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name.”

People Thinking Knows Names Depends

Author:Doug McClure

“Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.”

Knows Names Jazz

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“What's really fun is to write under different names.”

Writing Different Names Fun Different Names

Author:Tom Verlaine

“When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song...With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.”

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Author:Allison Williams

“There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.”

Needs Character Names News Sake Smear Campaigns

Author:Ricky Williams

“I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Names Christianity Discipline Please Angry Tired Islam Damage Divides Going To Work

Author:William P. Young

“People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.”

People World Want Kind Country States Whole Government Names United Behinds United States Democracy Example Standards Army Chaos Iraq Whole World Admire Double Standard

Author:Jacob Zuma

“I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.”

Names Grows Yesterday Vegetables

Author:Steve Zahn

“It’s hard to deny that an alarming number of those who stood for peace, not war, were either killed by deranged lone gunmen or else died in suspicious circumstances. We refer of course to the likes of JFK, Martin Luther King, Benazir Bhutto, Bobby Kennedy and John Lennon, to name but a few.”

War Hard Courses Names Numbers Kings Circumstances Died Deny Likes Luther Suspicious Lone Lennon Peace Not War Deranged Bobby Kennedy Gunmen Bhutto

Author:James Morcan

“For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.”

Thinking Names Folks Insult Injury Native Native American Offensive Insult To Injury

Author:Suzan Shown Harjo

“There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to operate. And one would hope that there will be something about the program, whether it's block comments at the start of each routine or an overview document that comes separately or just choices of variable names that will somehow convey those stories to you.”

Stories Choices Names Program Expected Block Organized Routine Comment Documents Variables Overview

Author:Guy Steele

“I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.”

Names Attention Come Up Sentences Pay Attention Accused

Author:Matthew Perry

“I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.”

Thinking Made Important Whole Names Concepts Independent Important Things Boring Staying Categories Punk

Author:Jello Biafra

“I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.”

Ifs Art Names Wish Argument Endless

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.”

Thinking Want Kind Artist Names Depends Sells Brands Shameful

Author:Adele

“Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.”

Sometimes Names Musical Chicago

Author:Tom Waits

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