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"I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely."
"[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo."
"The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. [...] It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around."
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
"Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theater for? An emotional exercise. And no preachment."
"I am no longer in pictures for money. I am in them because I love them. I am not in vain. I do not care about giving a smashing personal performance. My one ambition is to create fine entertainment."
"Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me."
"Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad serves up a triple scoop of crazy, sprinkled with crazy, and topped off with warm crazy sauce."
"For Dick Cheney, it must have felt just like any other day at the office: Folks who don't shave, don't bathe, and want him dead. Wow, feels just like back home!"
"Al Gore could really pollute a bathroom … Just look at the guy. If someone doesn't take away his pork 'n' beans, he's bound to get another one of those 'gut feelings' and mistake his own greenhouse gas production for science!"
"The Second Amendment was meant to give citizens the right to bear arms against the government, back when Uncle Sam's toys were as lame as yours… Handguns are sheer lunacy"
"Well I think we do have to define torture. One man’s torture is another man’s CIA’s sponsored swim lesson."
"I don't really pay much attention to it anymore. It's pretty ridiculous. I view it as a giant graffiti board for people with axes to grind — or for guys named Jimbo Wales who want to dump their girlfriends."
"While the Democratic-led congress hits a record low nine percent approval rating despite high pre-election hopes, the even further left-leaning embodiment of that epic failure is now shuffling around the globe, sending crowds into frenzies through speeches pimped out with eminently forgettable rhetoric that would make great political speechmakers like Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill scratch their heads."
"Never has outright racism been so exciting or so chic — both here in America and abroad! Kumbaya! In fact, a German paper called him “the black JFK”, which is an insult to the late President Kennedy, who -- again, leaving aside the blatant racism here — was nowhere near as far left as Obama."
"Sarkozy was elected last year by insisting on immigrants speaking French and insisting that they integrate into the French culture...Obama’s call for Americans to learn Spanish to accommodate the onslaught of Mexican immigrants makes the French government sound like Rush Limbaugh."
"She has very passionate opinions...she's articulate, intelligent, and we get a lot of favorable mail about her."
"Oh god, she is feminism's worst nightmare."
"I think they just thought she would be a good kind of lightning rod. We did one or two rehearsals, and I know for a fact that people liked her legs."
"The difference between Wikipedia and other editorially created products is that Wikipedians are not professionals, they are only asked to bring what they know. Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don't benefit from their crumb."
"This basket exists for one reason: the free and open sharing of personal-grooming items. For many of us, most of us, this basket has become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Help protect it now. Please make a donation"
"It [Wikipedia] was built 10 years ago and hasn’t changed that much, [but] we are looking for ways to increase serendipity. We are happily dependent on the inventiveness of the people who join us of their own volition."
"The heart and soul of everything the Wikimedia project does is volunteer driven, it's volunteer energy, volunteer time, altruism, people's commitment to create this massive educational endeavour that's really available to everybody"
"Assume good faith. This is so easier said than done ;/ But for real, assume good faith. When someone asks a question and you think they are trolling, it’s entirely possible they are not. (Maybe they are 15 years old, or their English is imperfect, or they have an impairment of some kind.) Even if they are trolling: there will always be onlookers who don’t know it, and who, whatever the provocation, will recoil if you are curt or unkind. Trolling also gives you an opportunity to equip onlookers with reasonable arguments that they can go on to use themselves."
"Since 1995 what the data says is each new generation of young people has become successively less supportive of democracy than the generation that preceded it."
"Sue came in when we were very tiny. We were based in Florida, still a handful of employees. She deserves credit for building the Wikimedia Foundation from, I’m going to venture to say, probably five or six employees, into quite a large organization after several years of time."
"Sue Gardner, who is apparently still a special advisor to the wmf, is giving a keynote speech."
"I am extremely proud and excited to announce my role as the new National Director for Miss Universe Ghana. I will be working diligently with my team to make sure we make Ghana proud."
"As a former titleholder, the Miss Universe experience taught me a great deal and has shaped me to be the woman I am today. I am very passionate about building and maintaining the reputation of the Miss Universe Ghana pageant in my role as National Director."
"My wife - she's my manager, she's my, she's my coach, she's my everything, she's my everything."
"When you treat a woman right you always get a beautiful home… respect is key. I respect her (Menaye) a lot and she also respects me. People talk a lot but we are focused."
"I get energy from people."
"I have always believed the aphorism that life is short and art is long, Ars Longa, Vita Brevis. Objects define, and often outlast, civilizations."
"The world of art is about free expression. But it is not about bullying and intimidation. I welcome debate and discussion about the realities of life in the digital age. There is a place for these debates, but they should be constructive, fair and factual - not based upon toxic personal attacks."
"I never shy away from a challenge"
"I knew it was going to be tough... But politics is about doing tough things. And about making tough changes."
"You understand what it means not to have a democracy, not being able to vote. The frustration of people saying we want justice or we want food, we want to have a future"
"I never regretted once since 2015 entering politics, because it’s about building our collective future"
"I will challenge Francois Legault on the economy. The economy will be the ballot box question. I challenge him to repeat that labour shortages are good news. I challenge him to see parents whose kids don’t have teachers and won’t have any for the next few weeks. I challenge him to visit entrepreneurs who are being forced to close their businesses because they don’t have enough staff."
"I am thinking of the cost of living; we have families who can’t make ends meet and have to decide whether to pay rent or buy food…"
"People are extremely frustrated, not only the anglophones, people in general. People are feeling we need to unite ourselves; we need to stop dividing ourselves, because what’s ahead of us is going to be a tough period in terms of the economy."
"She’s a young leader, with experience, and she represents a new way of doing politics, in a new generation of politicians... What I love about Dominique is that she is very grounded — she’s able to bring together the daily realities of people and the big picture challenges of the province"