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The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
Arthur Erickson

Whatever, Values, Disease

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.
Richard Branson

Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
Sachin Tendulkar

Thought, Play, Problem

I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.
Sachin Tendulkar

Mind, Happen, Two

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Bruce Barton

Hope, Give, Made

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Looking, Unexpected, Seen

Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy.
Benjamin Carson

Men, Country, Same

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
Benjamin Carson

Life, Great, God

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
Bonnie Blair

Winning, Mean, Done

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.
Katherine Heigl

Parents, Her, Three

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

God, Mind, Drink

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.
Rupert Grint

After, Magic, Bit

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
M. F. K. Fisher

Life, Thinking, Remember

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.
Kim Cattrall

Mother, Children, Assumed

The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.
Jon Meacham

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.
Jon Meacham

Faith, Political, Thought

And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
Harlan Coben

Love, Time, Fool

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
Albert J. Nock

Nature, Spiritual, Thought

I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.
Heath Ledger

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
Julio Cortazar

Dreams, Poetry, Play

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
Yasser Arafat

Him, Give, Goals

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.
Lena Dunham

Book, Sometimes, Wanted

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.
Catherine McCormack

Sunday, Often, Weekend

People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.
Jerry Lewis

Work, Negative, Tell

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.
John Cusack

Movies, School, Attention

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
John Cusack

Great, Movies, Dad

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.
Reese Witherspoon

Blessed, Children, Real

Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.
Basil Rathbone

Work, Again, Exchange

There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.
Alec Baldwin

Forget, Thinking, Country

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
Robert Bork

Equality, Law, Purpose

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