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People read inevitability as entitlement, and the American people want their candidates to sweat for the job. They want them to actually make a case for the job.

~Deval Patrick

Topics: Actually American American People Candidates Case Entitlement Inevitability Job Make People Read Sweat Them Want

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I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

~Devdutt Pattanaik

Topics: American Audiences Chinese Cultures European Focus India Like Me Rituals Sacred Stories Symbols Write I Write

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I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life.

~Devon Aoki

Topics: Am American Because British Eight Life Like Lived London My Life Part Parts Say Third Two Years I Am

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Any American who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you: the closer you get, the less certain you are of anything. If you are in Iraq, if you are in Afghanistan, everything is ambiguous. Everything is murky and gray and uncertain and possibly lethal.

~Dexter Filkins

Topics: Afghanistan Ambiguous American Any Anything Certain Closer Everything Get Gray Iraq Less Lethal Possibly Spent Tell Time Uncertain Who Will You

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It is one of the great ironies of the American war in Iraq - was that the guys who really got the most out of it were the Iranians. And they have us to thank for that. Yeah, I mean we basically put Maliki in power in 2006, but he has been - he's really not a friend of the United States. He's a friend of the Iranian regime.

~Dexter Filkins

Topics: American Basically Been Friend Got Great Guys He Iranian Iranians Iraq Mean Most Out Power Put Really Regime States Thank United United States Us War Were Who Yeah

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The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011.

~Dexter Filkins

Topics: American Baghdad Bush Calm Combat Country Descended End Forces Held Kind Last Late Left Much Ordered President President Bush Pretty Relative Soldiers Surge Until Worked

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I think - I think the real nightmare place now is less Afghanistan than it is Pakistan. I mean, again, Pakistan is this gigantic country, deeply troubled, kind of almost ungovernable, sitting on top of probably 50 or 60 nuclear warheads. Nobody really knows where the warheads are; the Americans certainly don't know where they are.

~Dexter Filkins

Topics: Afghanistan Again Almost American Certainly Country Deeply Gigantic Kind Know Knows Less Mean Nightmare Nobody Now Nuclear Pakistan Place Real Really Sitting Than Think Top Troubled Where I Think

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I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of bloggers, tweeters, and self-ordained voice coaches.

~Diablo Cody

Topics: America American American Idol Back Been Bloggers Coaches Debut Evolved Idol Season Since Then Voice Watching

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After 'American Idol,' I got a lot of 'stuck up' rumors that just fueled the never-ending flames of high school drama. Thankfully, my real friends always stood up for me and knew I wasn't like that.

~Diana Degarmo

Topics: After Always American American Idol Drama Flames Friends Fueled Got High High School Idol Just Knew Like Lot Me Never-Ending Real Real Friends Rumors School Stood Stuck Thankfully Up

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With 'American Idol,' you are on your toes a lot. People don't realize the amount of work.

~Diana Degarmo

Topics: American American Idol Amount Idol Lot People Realize Toes Work You Your

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