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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'
Michelle Bachelet

Women, Fear, Live

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.
Martin Yan

Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages.
David Dinkins

Important, May, Country

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
Betty Buckley

Help, Give, Why

You can ask any set decorator on any set where I've had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it - I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in.
Anna Chlumsky

Put, Office, Ask

We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.
Bjorn Lomborg

Best, Different, Find

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.
Martin Amis

Islam, Makes, Individual

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.
John Thorn

Work, Play, Pay

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
John Churton Collins

I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.
Adolf Galland

Flying, Combat, Supposed

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.
Dick Dale

Musician, Julliard

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
Steven Pinker

Equality, Political, Commitment

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
Harold Ramis

Work, Done, Writer

And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.
Merle Haggard

Done, Couple, Tests

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.
Martin L. Gross

Government, Loses, Fails

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Religion, God, Fear

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.
LeRoy Neiman

Work, Try, Style

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.
Tom Allen

Special, Same, Rights

I think the theme that I was attracted to in 'Beautiful Creatures' was you claim yourself. In my opinion, I think that's a really valid idea and I'm glad that that's our foundation.
Alice Englert

Beautiful, Yourself, Opinion

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?
Don Bluth

Money, Made, Why

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
Daniel Clowes

Fame, User, Oldest

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.
Gerrit Smith

Nothing, Sometimes, State

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.
Gerrit Smith

Respect, Far, She

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Patricia Meyer Spacks

Women, Men, Insult

You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.
James Hansen

True, Turn, Television

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
L. Neil Smith

Freedom, Hate, Lie

The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being at school. It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.
Charlie Simpson

School, Fun, Job

Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
Damon Hill

Put, Victory, Start

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.
Chris Hughes

Real, Big, Fact

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
Charles Eastman

Power, Alone, Creative

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