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I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.
Beth Ditto

Life, Positive, Mom

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.
Jim Bolger

Democracy, Matter, Able

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Oliver Goldsmith

Family, Opinion, Honest

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.
Gael Garcia Bernal

Human, Democracy, Show

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.
Joaquin Phoenix

Life, Person, Conflict

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Elias Canetti

Writing, Night, Though

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.
Nick Clegg

Wish, Three, Next

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.
Nick Clegg

Whole, Rather, Less

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.
Courtney Love

Alone, Mother, Getting

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.
Leona Lewis

Trust, Person, Around

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.
Ben Affleck

Made, Enough, Said

When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.
Joe Namath

Stress, Married, Won

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.
Chaim Potok

Human, Same, Three

I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.
Gary Numan

Life, Marriage, Girl

The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Person, After

The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Love, Parents, Advice

Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Person, Word, Works

If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Mother, Person, Night

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
Saadi

Great, Together, Deal

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
Karen Armstrong

Love, Wanted, Beginning

Every single thing in my life is built around race.
Jamie Foxx

Life, Around, Race

Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.
Jamie Foxx

Him, Keep, Here

I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online.
Patti Stanger

Love, Time, Long

Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.
Patti Stanger

Woman, Night, Year

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
Barbara Corcoran

Great, Business, Mom

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
Barbara Corcoran

Strength, Greatest, Become

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
Tom Peters

Design, Meeting, Critical

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
Tom Peters

Work, Fact, Lives

If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that's because, of course, oil is traded on a global market.
Jennifer Granholm

Three, United, Maybe

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
Warren Zevon

Impressive, Safe, Figure

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