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" Would they call me a diva if I were a guy? " - Zaha Hadid

" Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power. " - Dan Webster

" My father was a little frightening – a huge man, six foot four – and he looked like God. He was always a visitor, as far as I was concerned, because my parents separated when I was nine. We only became friends when he was old and began to shrink. During the war, he was a BBC war correspondent and did some extraordinary broadcasts. " - Jennifer Johnston

" A time would come when nobody in the State would dare antagonise the BJP if they were to conduct politics in Tamil Nadu. " - Tamilisai Soundararajan

" In ‘Night Court,’ my name is still Harry, and I’m – my best friends are still three-card monte workers, and I still have spring snakes hidden everywhere and joy buzzers, but I’m the judge. " - Harry Anderson

" Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president. " - Hunter S. Thompson

" The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles. " - Barton Gellman

" The genesis of Donald Trump’s relationship with Paul Manafort begins with Roy Cohn. That Roy Cohn: Joe McCarthy’s heavy-lidded henchman, lawyer to the Genovese family. During the ’70s, Trump and his father hired Cohn as their lawyer to defend the family against a housing discrimination suit. " - Franklin Foer

" A judge’s role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made. " - Paul Watford

" Let’s say you are driving in the U.K., and you are pulled over by the police for speeding, and you try to bribe the police officer with £300 to walk away. I guarantee you that at least 99 times out of 100 you are going end up in handcuffs, and you will be charged with the crime of trying to bribe a police officer. " - Bryan Fogel