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  • Life, unfortunately, doesnʹt seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster. -- Richelle Mead
  • I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing. -- Peter Sis
  • The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster. -- Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. -- Lorna Luft
  • At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny. -- Simon Rich
  • Americans do not have a good track record when it comes to preparing for disasters, unless they see a clear possibility of personally being in harms way. -- Irwin Redlener
  • I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster. -- Nathalie Sarraute
  • Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of. -- Stephen Hawking
  • Did you know that the word 'tsunami,' which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past. -- Junichiro Koizumi
  • A major part of being prepared is having a plan. Local calls don't always work in the immediate vicinity of a disaster, so it's important to have an out-of-town contact with whom the entire family can check in. -- Mike Crapo
  • We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much. -- Diane Ackerman
  • The two biggest threats to international security in 2013 are Iran getting a nuclear weapon, and Iran being bombed to stop it getting a nuclear weapon. Both would precipitate a long and dangerous conflict in an already unstable Middle East. Both would be a disaster. -- David Miliband
  • One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned. -- Tim Curry
  • How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects. -- Gloria Reuben
  • Manchester United and Liverpool have been bought with huge leverage, and we've got Roman Abramovich at Chelsea who can turn his loans into shares. It is really important for the Premier League to ask itself: if a club is being bought on such a mountain of debt, isn't that a possible recipe for disaster for the future? -- Gordon Taylor
  • I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up. -- Katy B
  • I don't really believe in elegance. Ever since I first came to France many years ago to do the Chambre Syndicale course, I always felt I was somehow lacking, first of all being British - obviously a disaster! But I was also puzzled with this idea that you have to tie your Hermes scarf just right, or you can only wear black. -- Suzy Menkes
  • I'm a dirty kid: I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, skating and just being a disaster. I was obsessed with Dogtown - I still am obsessed with Dogtown, the Z-Boys. I love Stacy Peralta and Jay Adams and Andrew Reynolds, all these guys. I used to think I was Chad Muska. -- Jamie Campbell Bower
  • No disaster is worse than being discontented. -- Laozi
  • When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster. -- Slash
  • Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster -- Mario Puzo
  • Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster, -- Daniel Kish
  • My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland -- Lorna Luft
  • You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster. -- T. S. Eliot
  • Iâ??m in love with everyone Iâ??ve ever met in one way or another. Iâ??m just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being. -- Edie Sedgwick
  • I let a friend set me up on a blind date. It was a disaster. She ended up being a burn victim. By the end of the night. -- Anthony Jeselnik
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