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MICK MULVANEY A single white roes goes with everything, doesn´t it, and it symbolizes purity. ALEX FLINN Don't worry about everything and really enjoy the moment. AIMEE TEEGARDEN I really didn't get obsessed with Bowie until my freshman year in high school. I remember listen... SCOTT WEILAND It's very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it's not r... AURORA One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to din... PAUL PRUDHOMME Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of d... PHARRELL WILLIAMS I don't mind being the one people talk about. It doesn't weigh on me. NEYMAR I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's righ... JOE WURZELBACHER Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho... ALEXANDER PAYNE It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. 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It's a very bounde... ELLEN ULLMAN It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't ... VANILLA ICE It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people&... DOUGLAS HODGE About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like... SIA When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your car... JAMES CORDEN Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something tha... ANTHONY HOROWITZ I didn't know anything about Eliza when I first got the call about 'Hamilton.' Tommy Kai... PHILLIPA SOO Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photog... ELLIOTT ERWITT One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn... TOM STOPPARD History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up ... JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up ... E. O. WILSON 'I was going to start off tonight by telling some self-deprecating jokes, but then I couldn't think ... GEORGE W. BUSH It doesn't matter if you are number one or number two. You have to prepare for everything. CHEN LONG I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, an... ED GAMBLE A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, ... ROGER STONE I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think i... ALICE WATERS I don't feel uncomfortable in America, but every once in a while, I'm reminded that people d... CHANG-RAE LEE It's not about giving back if you're successful or a celebrity or how much money you have: i... TRISHA YEARWOOD
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ALEX PIETSCH It's not like this is going to happen in the middle of the night. ALEX PIETSCH This is the best tool that is out there that gives us hope for closing the gaps that we have for our... ALEX PIETSCH Yeah, I guess you could say that. We broke a lot of stuff. ALEX PHILLIPS I think it will be pretty impressive, especially after running on those cinders all the time and com... ALEX PHILLIPS It was a good experience. I'm glad I did it. ALEX PHILLIPS We were just hanging out together like we used to do. ALEX PHILLIPS I have to pay attention. Every three days I have to put gas in it. ALEX PEREZ Just getting nominated is insane. We'll find out if we're selected in April. That will be two weeks ... ALEX PEREZ I think it really helped to open their eyes and minds to the profession. It definitely made everythi... ALEX PEREZ The kids had a blast. Colin was able to give them insight about professional acting, and the student... ALEX PEREZ I made a few phone calls to friends, and they hooked me up. I used my professional contacts. ALEX PEREZ You're your own boss. No one tells you anything. ALEX PEREZ You don't have time to eat lunch, you work 12 hours and then the first days you just try to keep bus... ALEX PEREZ It's not your typical job. It pays well if you do the job right and build a client base. ALEX PEREZ We will hit the gun industry where it hurts -- in its wallet, ALEX PENELAS express those emotions with violence, they must not express them with civil disorder, or any fashion... ALEX PENELAS were a very clear manifestation of 41 years of persecution, 41 years of having loved ones perishing ... ALEX PENELAS If anyone goes beyond the boundaries of peaceful protest and in any way causes disorder in this comm... ALEX PENELAS If anyone goes beyond the boundaries of peaceful protest and in any way causes disorder in this comm... ALEX PENELAS to assist the federal government in any way, shape or form to inappropriately repatriate Elian Gonza... ALEX PENELAS Across the globe, Andrew Cunanan is ... a marked man. The world is on notice, ALEX PENELAS An impenetrable type of industry can in fact be penetrated, if you have good legal arguments. I thin... ALEX PENELAS We all want to make it very clear this afternoon that if the Justice Department's handling of this m... ALEX PENELAS We all believe that the particular actions of the Coast Guard at that time were unnecessary and unwa... ALEX PENELAS