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I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.
John McCain

God, Hand, Sunset

And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.
Davy Jones

Experience, Days, Three

Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.
Krist Novoselic

Great, Rock, Everything

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.
Guy Laliberte

Symphony, Note, Quarter

The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.
Sebastian Vettel

Special, Third, Track

I'm very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn't know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.
Sebastian Vettel

Lost, Two, Thoughts

To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.
Joshua Foer

Time, Two, Same

Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.
Joshua Foer

Person, Group, Action

Life is a grand party.
Ezra Miller

Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.
Patsy Cline

Real, Big, Fabulous

I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
Carly Rae Jepsen

Miss, Hit, Gestures

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.
Bob Uecker

Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.
Fred Upton

Health, Care, Law

I have no grand scheme.
Dave Attell

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.
Eric Stoltz

Nature, History, Movies

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
Bernard Williams

Life, Keep, Secret

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
Alexander Herzen

Everything, Insanity, Childhood

In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?
Paul Davies

Life, Why, Place

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
Kevin J. Anderson

Important, Lord, Literature

Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.
Wim Wenders

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'
Li Na

Thinking, Win, She

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.
Donella Meadows

Side, Jury, Hears

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
Donella Meadows

Time, Trying, Understand

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.
Donella Meadows

Decided, Evidence, Court

The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.
Donella Meadows

Job, Person, Enough

Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It's a big win. You can say it's more, you can say it's less, you can say it's equal. It's very much up there.
Ivan Lendl

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.
Morley Safer

Beautiful, Woman, Doubt

It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.
Emmy Rossum

Awesome, Characters

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.
Pete Sampras

Long, Win, Easy

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
Stanley Crouch

End, Violence, Redneck

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