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Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.
Thomas Frank

Political, Subject, Motherhood

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.
David Byrne

Good, Correct, Bikes

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
Jessica Lange

Acting, Start, Pursue

The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.
Thomas Frank

Great, Business, Death

All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.
Harvey Milk

Gay, Job, Person

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
Chris Christie

Family, Health, Teacher

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Samuel Richardson

Education, Women, Great

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
Bob Uecker

Baseball, Career, Picture

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
Adam Smith

Fear, Real, Losing

I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.
Alton Brown

Work, Fun, Girl

I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together.
Channing Tatum

Work, Time, Live

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
Elizabeth I

Nothing, Find, Left

Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor.
Liam Neeson

Success, May, Support

And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over.
Jerry Garcia

Control, Pretty, Stuff

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
Bertolt Brecht

Peace, Good, War

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
Anne Lamott

Death, Black, Again

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.
Jimmy Wales

End, Computer, Sitting

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
Arthur Erickson

Self, Creative, Act

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
Arthur Erickson

America, Takes, Management

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
Jackie Chan

Film, Since, Lived

Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures.
Kate Moss

Woman, Saying, Fire

I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.
Usain Bolt

Thinking, Before, After

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.
Diablo Cody

Writing, Find, Enjoyment

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.
Diablo Cody

Time, Famous, Ugly

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
Diablo Cody

Writing, Books, Summer

Now on Friday nights, if I want to go hang out with friends, I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies, I do that.
Demi Lovato

Movies, Friends, Friday

The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.
Dennis Prager

Giving, Control, American

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.
Francesca Annis

God, Someone, Thinking

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
Mark Zuckerberg

Time, Different, Social

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.
Tony Campolo

Young, Voting, Older

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