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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon... - Tavis Smiley

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

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I've noticed that every public health minister has been a woman.

If I feel insecure, then I am in the wrong profession. I have to trust my director and the material he has given me.

Western people ask me whether it is a paradox that I am King but support democracy. I have to tell them that in Thailand, the King is the guarantor of democracy.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing 'Captain Underpants'. Soon I was making my own comic books about him.

I know that I've got some guys I want to put in the foxhole with me, and there's a lot of 'em.

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.

Ain't nothin' changed with me. I'm Eastside Gary til I die.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau

It's about legacy, it's about moments, it's about being an icon - I'll do what I do and the money will flow.

Israel Adesanya

I'd do the blues all the time if I could, that's what I'm into. But people just don't like to hear it.

I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.

Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

Saint Teresa of Avila

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.