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#1. I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that they think that the word rock means white and the word rap means black.

Ice-T

#2. Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.

Barack Obama

#3. An arm bar in a vacuum is worthless. It is the realization of the truths which constitute that arm bar that is the real treasure we seek.

Chris Matakas

#4. Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

John Darnielle

#5. There's no dark like it. It's soft to the touch and heavy in the hands. You can open your mouth and let it sink into you 'till it makes a close ball in your belly. You can juggle with it, dodge it, swim in it. You can open it like a door.

Jeanette Winterson

#6. In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Julia Child

#7. Fifth and finally, do nothing impulsively. Give God an opportunity to speak. Until He does, stall for time and concentrate on the first four approaches.

James C. Dobson

#8. In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.

Luc De Clapiers

#9. I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

Steve Toltz

#10. I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages.

Paul Smith

#11. An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

Ayn Rand

#12. Money talks. If it's the dollar, it's small talk.

Croft M. Pentz