“The 1984 tax trials, when he appealed his New York state and New York City audits, were about Donald Trump claiming zero revenue for his consulting business and taking over $600,000 of deductions, for which he couldn't produce any documentation, no receipts, no checks, nothing, those two elements, zero income and huge deductions, combined with his own tax guy testifying under oath, that's my signature, but I didn't prepare that tax return, those are very strong badges of fraud.” GuyStrongTaxesFraudVery StrongOath Author:Hillary Clinton
“I'm thinking about the people who I want to see running for President. And there's quite a group. I mean we have a very strong field of leaders who could become our nominee and - and could stand up for the kind of leadership I think America wants.” PeopleThinkingKindMeanRunningStrongPresidentLeaderVery Strong Author:Mitt Romney
“I'm Roman Catholic and I believe very strongly in the power of prayer.” BelieveI BelievePrayerCatholicVery StrongRoman Catholic Author:John Zaffis
“The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace each other, to engage each other, to not be afraid of each other. The music certainly has that very strong element. Go back to folk songs, gospel, jazz, and spirituals. See, all of that came out of tremendous pain and hurt, rejection, loss, alienation, and abandonment. What I'm doing is I'm expressing my pain and hope at the same time.” EnoughPainSongStrongHurtLossComfortEmbraceJazzRejectionVery StrongAlienationAbandonment Author:Cecil Williams
“I don't let myself believe in writer's block. I feel very strongly writing is habit as much as an art or a craft. And if you write crap, you're still writing.” WritingBelieveArtHabitBlockVery StrongCrap Author:Nora Roberts
“I consider myself to be a feminist. My hope and goal is that I'm going to raise two very strong independent women that won't need anybody, unless they chose that. I want them to be mistresses of their own destiny. But I don't judge people on the other end of that spectrum either.” PeopleStrongGoalDestinyJudgingIndependentFeministVery StrongMistressIndependent Women Author:Audra McDonald
“A majority of Trump's voters were in favor of staying in the Paris Agreement. And if you look at what's really happening in the economy, the economic argument actually is very strongly in favor of the Paris Agreement. There are now twice as many jobs in the solar industry as in the coal industry. Solar jobs are growing 17 times faster than other jobs in the U.S.” EconomyEconomicArgumentVery Strong Author:Al Gore
“The media plays an essential role in our culture. It is the Fourth Estate; it's an undeniably essential instrument in the great American experiment - in keeping our democracy functional. People have very strong opinions about what that means and how information should be disseminated to a population that requires information.” PeopleMeanCultureStrongOpinionDemocracyVery StrongGreat American Author:Thomas Sadoski
“The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong, very active popular movement that demands it and such a movement would be unparalleled because it would be a popular movement that says, "Raise our taxes so that we change our behavior."” StrongPolicyTaxesBehaviorEnvironmentalVery Strong Author:Dale Jamieson
“A very strong player can manage and can just know how to manage a thousand positions. I get it; it's a very arbitrary number. So then you have the world champion who could do more. But, again, any increase in numbers creates, sort of, a new level of playing. And then you go to the very top, and the difference is so minimal, but it does exist. So even a few players who never became world champion, like Vassily Ivanchuk, for instance, I think they belong to the same category.” ThinkingWorldStrongPlayerManageChampionVery Strong Author:Garry Kasparov
“I feel very strongly about the legacy of Ghost and I'm the next part of that chapter and hopefully a very long and continuing story through the franchise of Ghost in the Shell which is already a huge universe. So yes, I felt pressure, but you always feel pressure as an artist creatively in any endeavour you do, so you just have to do the best that you can do and then hope that is successful.” LongArtistUniverseSuccessfulGhostHopefullyLegacyVery Strong Author:Rupert Sanders
“Childhood is usually identified with fantasy, adventure, and dreaming. But mine didn't offer a lot of hope. I could read my future in my palm. Everything foretold: "You have no future!" A person must be very strong to keep going without hope.” DreamStrongFantasyChildhoodAdventureKeep GoingVery StrongMy FutureWithout Hope Author:Luljeta Lleshanaku
“I saw Ben Whishaw playing Hamlet at the Old Vic and straight away had a very strong sense that he might be the end of a very, very long road of searching for the right guy. He did an amazing audition, where it all came across this, instinctive feeling that he obviously had for the character in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer.” LongCharacterFeelingsGuyStrongVery StrongMurdererLong Road Author:Tom Tykwer
“If you're talking about the narrow issue of public assistance, I would like to see us move to a more healthy system. But until we come up with certain guarantees - for example, guaranteed jobs where mothers move off welfare - I support welfare very strongly. The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.” PeopleMovingMotherSupportWorstHealthyWelfareSwimVery Strong Author:William Julius Wilson
“I feel very strongly about letting people know I'm proud of who I am. I want people to know when they hear my songs it's coming from a specific place. The new record is specifically for us trans women: that we can sing about our pain, being ostracized by our lovers, who are ashamed of us in a way. There's no pop music like that for our community. I wanted to contribute in that way.” PeoplePainSongCommunityProudLoversAshamedVery StrongPop Music Author:Nomi Ruiz
“I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions.” PeopleFightingSurvivalIllnessAidsVery Strong Author:Bradford Cox
“I've done my share of reading about Abraham Lincoln, throughout my life, and he wasn't always carved in stone. He was a human being. He was a very thoughtful, self-educated, complex, magnanimous human being, who was very, very strong, very smart and very canny, with a very strong sense of what was right and what was wrong. Through all that, he's become an icon, over the years, and some of his warmth and humanity has been lost. You don't tend to think of Lincoln as this warm, funny person, but he was.” ThinkingDoneHumanityReadingStrongShareSmartThoughtfulWarmthVery StrongVery Smart Author:Billy Campbell
“I always had a very strong sense of responsibility, so the minute I started to work in fashion, I was always tremendously serious-too much sometimes. Of course, you can make a lot of mistakes in this job-I still do-but you need to limit them as much as possible. When you're responsible for such a huge company, you cannot play too much. In the beginning, I was working 20 hours per day and I was going crazy. I learned that I needed to delegate and to trust the people around me, but there is still not one element that I don't see or edit or discuss with my people.” PeopleSometimesStrongHoursMistakeResponsibilityCrazyFashionResponsibleVery StrongSense Of ResponsibilityGoing Crazy Author:Frida Giannini
“I think it's something that really speaks in your head - a very strong melody. But at the same time, if the song doesn't have some kind of edge to it, if there isn't something a little off about it or something very intense or loud or abrasive in some way, it just comes off as a stupid pop song.” ThinkingKindSongSpeakStrongStupidIntenseMelodyVery StrongPop Song Author:Mikal Cronin
“I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film was so collaborative. I thought as a photographer I could make something that was artistic and that was mine, and I liked that. And it wasn't until I got back into film and I have very small crews and I could do very tiny filmmaking that wasn't 100 people that I still felt that I was making something artistic as a filmmaker. So, you know, I'm an artist, and whether it's photography or film, I want my voice to be there and I think my voice is very strong in this film.” PeopleThinkingArtFilmArtistStrongPhotographyPhotographerArtisticFilmmakerVery StrongFilmmaking Author:Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
“To me to be a solo artist means I can do so many new and exciting things and I feel very strongly that one must evolve and grow. I love being a bass player and I feel really good that I was able to spend a focused chapter defining that role, but I'm not someone that likes being in the same role forever.” MeanArtistLove IsForeverPlayerExcitingFocusedEvolveVery Strong Author:Melissa Auf der Maur
“Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.” PeopleArtStrongDiversityVery Strong Author:Emmanuel Benbihy
“I'm very strong in who I am, I'm very happy where I am. And wherever, as you know some people go overboard with criticism, but you know what? I would say look in your mirror, and see who you are, and what did you do.” PeopleStrongCriticismWho You AreVery StrongVery HappyOverboard Author:Tommy Wiseau
“That bothers me when I see that fashion editors are consultants for brands. It tells me that the designer has lost sight of what he or she really wants to do, and that he or she is listening to the strength of a very strong stylist and being a little watered down - and by watered down, I mean, the strength of the designer's vision. I'm not saying it's easy.” MeanStrongEasyVisionFashionListeningBotherDesignerVery Strong Author:Polly Allen Mellen
“It was not easy when I was a teenager. But today, with the new technology, with the Internet, everybody can do prostitution with two clicks. During the period of Belle du Jour, it was a very strong decision to go into the profession, but now, if you need a little bit money, you go on a website and you say, "Can I have 50 dollars?" It's easy! I wanted to show these facilities.” TodayStrongEasyDecisionTechnologyInternetProfessionTeenagerVery StrongWebsiteNew Technology Author:Francois Ozon
“I travel a lot. Japanese culture is very ancient and very strong. That's why most people who commission work from Japanese architects expect them to create works that have an element of exoticism, the kind typical of Japanese culture. I don't do that.” PeopleKindCultureStrongAncientArchitectVery Strong Author:Shigeru Ban
“I think Trump has had a very strong and disturbing effect on the country already. He has given more legitimacy to white supremacy and even to neo-fascist groups, and he's created a pervasive atmosphere that's more vague but still significant. I don't believe that he can in his own way destroy the country, just as he can't eliminate climate awareness, but he can go a long way in bringing - well, in stimulating what has always been a potential.” ThinkingBelieveLongCountryStrongAwarenessSignificantAtmosphereVery StrongWhite Supremacy Author:Donald Trump
“I had no intention of returning into the British political debate, really at all, even though I've obviously got very strong views on it, until Brexit happened, because I think Brexit is a destiny-changing decision for my country.” ThinkingCountryPoliticalStrongDecisionIntentionDebateVery Strong Author:Tony Blair
“While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how a movie does as far as the box office goes. Many years ago, it would have been vulgar to print box - office grosses in the paper. Now The New York Times does it, and it's the big story for people interested in arts and entertainment on Monday. Which is why emphasis has shifted away from filmmakers and fallen on movie stars and business people.” PeopleArtCultureStrongOfficeFallenFilmmakerPrintVery StrongShallowVulgarMondayMovie StarAmerican CulturePopular Culture Author:Willem Dafoe
“Why does the need to explain comics still exist? Because that prejudice still exists. It's fading, but it's still very strong. It's important to keep pushing the boundaries of what people know comics to be so that they are receptive to the whole world of comics, not just one or two genres of work.” PeopleWorldImportantStrongPrejudiceBoundariesVery Strong Author:Jessica Abel
“I have a very strong distinction between work and my life. They are not the same and I don't want to ever feel that on a day to day basis that I have to live up to people's expectations, because you never can do that so I don't want to put that pressure on myself.” StrongExpectationsVery Strong Author:Kristin Davis
“Donald Trump clearly doesn't have the intellectual capacity to have a concept of what he's doing. I think he has a very strong instinct for using lying to assert power, and that's what he does. Every time he lies, he's saying "I can say whatever I want, whenever I want to, and there's nothing you can do about it." I think he understands that instinctively. He has a finely honed sense for power and manipulation. Bullying is another way to put it. He's a highly skilled bully, but bullying is not a very sophisticated strategy.” ThinkingLyingStrongIntellectualStrategyInstinctManipulationBullyingVery StrongSophisticatedBully Author:Masha Gessen
“When I am most successful as a guitar player is when I'm able to just sort of lose myself. You stop thinking about technique or anything like that and just trying to evoke the emotion of that song brings, which is a very strong emotion for me.” ThinkingTryingSongStrongEmotionSuccessfulPlayerVery StrongGuitar Player Author:Tom Morello
“I have very strong feelings about what modern fame means, and the toxicity of it. I read Naomi Klein's No Logo when I was 15. It's one of the things that's shaped my relationship to fame - to endorsements, to selling things. I've taken a certain path in terms of all that stuff.” MeanFeelingsStrongTermPathTakenModernFameSellingVery StrongStrong Feeling Author:Andrew Garfield
“Michel Houllebecq is surely the novelist who best describes contemporary phobias and fears. He also succeeds perhaps like no other in portraying the postmodern character of our society. He addresses the possibilities of genetics at times, or Islamism, and infuses all of it with a certain amount of absurdity. I get a very strong sense of that in "Submission." The way he toys with the absurd makes him an author sui generis, one who stands out from the others.” CharacterStrongPossibilitySucceedAbsurdVery StrongAbsurdityStanding OutSubmissionPhobiaPostmodern Author:Emmanuel Macron
“I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation. So, the politicians and the people who make decisions very often is the one we think can make some difference. But of course they will not make a difference if the citizens or the individuals not push it or not to speak out, to possess a very strong voice about, this is not acceptable.” PeopleThinkingHomeIndividualSpeakStrongDecisionSituationPoliticianConsciousTragedyCrisisMaking A DifferenceVery Strong Author:Ai Weiwei
“I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures, because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong. If I was born in Japan, I would speak about Buddhism, but I was born in South America.” SpeakStrongChurchReligiousBuddhismCatholicLatinVery StrongLatin America Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“The elegance of the Italian South is a very strong elegance and it is one that I bring. It is a sexy elegance - or at least, let's say less chaste.” StrongSexyItalianVery StrongElegance Author:Riccardo Tisci
“First Russians objective was - as I said earlier - to sow discord, discontent, disruption. And their next objective was - because of the very strong personal animus that Putin himself had for both Clintons, both President Clinton and Secretary Clinton - and he particularly held her responsible for what he felt was an attempted color revolution in 2011 to attempt to overturn him. So, he had very strong hatred - personal hatred - towards her, and that kind of led him to - if I'm opposed to her, who am I going to favor?” KindStrongPresidentRevolutionHatredResponsibleClintonVery StrongSecretaryDiscontentPresident ClintonStrong Person Author:James R. Clapper
“I have a very strong paternal streak. I'm a born father...I get such enjoyment out of being with children. Now they are enjoyable little things. They really are. I like their kind of humor. You can stuff all your punk bands, give me three children instead.” GivingKindChildrenFatherStrongEnjoymentLittle ThingsVery StrongPunkEnjoyable Author:David Bowie
“My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.” MenStrongFeministVery StrongTeenageTeenage Years Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“A lot of charter schools are non-union schools that take a lot of teachers from alternative tracks, like Teach For America. They do this in part because a lot of charter schools have very strong ideologies around how they want teachers to teach. And they find that starting with a younger or more inexperienced teacher allows them to more effectively inculcate those ideas.” SchoolStrongTeachTeacherTrackIdeologyVery StrongCharter Author:Dana Goldstein
“People ask me: "Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?" "What does it mean to be Latino?" Those are very strange questions to answer , but feminism is easier because it's just an ideology, a way I live my life. And absolutely in the most political sense I try to sit down and write very strong female roles.” PeopleWritingTryingMeanPoliticalStrongFeminismStrangeFemaleIdeologyAsk MeVery StrongLiving My LifeLatinoI Live My LifeStrong Female Author:Quiara Alegria Hudes
“There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.” KindChildrenMotherIndividualStrongIdentityWesternVery StrongPregnantNursingPregnant Women Author:Anne Enright
“In the south of India, they educated girls. Three things came together in southern India that are unbelievably coincidental. There, the local Maharajas believed in education for everybody. The Syrian Catholic Church built schools for boys and girls. And then the Communist party, which took over politics for a period of time, had very strong social policies that benefited women. As a result, girls got into school. It was the first part of the country where towns could claim to be 100 percent literate. And so there, you're going to have a sex ratio at birth that's normal.” CountrySchoolTogetherGirlStrongChurchPartyBoysPolicyBirthCatholicEducatedCommunistSouthernVery StrongBoy And Girl Author:Barbara Crossette
“I felt like the last record was a real step forward for us. I was very pleased to see some people saying the same things - that it was a real departure, that it was much more individual, that it sort of a power of its own. I really did feel those things very strongly, it's our most realized record.” PeopleRealIndividualVery Strong Author:Jonathan Meiburg
“Do you know what's most interesting? Working with the very strong restrictions of the institution. In the Renaissance, the aristocrats would order paintings from the artist. They would order the Crucifixion of Jesus. The restrictions were amazing. Jesus had to be in the middle, three apostles on the left, four apostles on the right - and still you had masterpieces. It's really interesting to work within restriction, and see what you can do with restriction.” ArtistJesusStrongInterestingPaintingVery StrongMasterpieceMost InterestingReally InterestingCrucifixion Author:Marina Abramovic
“I do respect Donald Trump. And I think he has a very strong view in terms of security. And we are very strong allies and we work very closely together in Middle East and in order to fight against terrorism. But we didn't agree on two to three issues, and the very first one was on climate. And what it told me is that I took a commitment vis-à-vis my voters. And I told them it was not good for the U.S. and especially the U.S. workers. I tried to convince them. I do believe that on the mid- to long-run it's not true. And I do believe it's important to have on board the U.S. government.” ThinkingBelieveImportantTogetherFightingStrongTermSecurityCommitmentAgreeTerrorismConvinceVery Strong Author:Emmanuel Macron
“I grew up a squatter on the Lower East Side, so it's kind of a given that I'd have very strong opinions on everything from cyclical violence to teenage pregnancy to environmental justice.” KindStrongJusticeOpinionViolenceEnvironmentalPregnancyVery StrongTeenage Author:Rosario Dawson
“Mr. Donald Trump talking about the US Mexican border, he's not doing anything new or unusual. It's something that's very much in the air and perhaps always has been. The Great Wall of China has been there for a great long time. People have always tried to keep foreigners out. There is a very natural desire, once you've got somewhere cozy, to keep it to yourself, and equally there's a very strong impulse for those who are not at such a safe and prosperous place to try and get in. It's been creating conflict throughout human history.” PeopleTryingLongDesireStrongNaturalWallConflictImpulseUnusualVery StrongMexicanProsperous Author:Lucy Hughes-Hallett