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It's worthwhile for people to come and look at it because you probably won't be seeing it again in two or three year's time, it may very well be cut up into all these wonderful famous stones. – David Bennett	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Many artists have painted what I think you can call citational art, that uses famous past images as a starting point, we see this in the first rooms of the exhibition, where artists from far afield as Japan and Brazil use Botticelli's imagery to tell stories very much of their own. – Mark Evans	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To this day, 25 years later here in the United States or indeed around the world, people always come up to me: 'Oh I remember the Gulf War. I remember what you were doing,' they still associate me with those months of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, and it's a source of pride to me that I quote 'became famous' covering that war. – Wolf Blitzer	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The fact that a person can stand next to a famous person and go toe to toe with them, it elevates them in the public eye. – Bruce DuMont	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Every year politicians they are trying to solve the famous Cypriot problem but now it's so many years passed and I am not so sure what will happen. – Pavlos Kontides	Found on CNN 8 years ago
But under the conditions of warfare, weapons are going to have performance characteristics. And they're going to be very carefully fashioned for that purpose because it matters... You would cut somebody [ with a mata'a ], but they certainly wouldn't be lethal in any way. Related : Ancient Roman brooch contains' lovely' palindrome Some scientists have estimated, that, at its height, Easter Island’s population may have been as high as 20,000, but fell over centuries after the island’s trees and palms were cut down to build canoes and transport its famous giant statues. One theory suggests that the deforestation led to soil erosion, impacting the island’s ability to support wildlife and farming, and the collapse of its civilization. When the Dutch arrived at the island in 1722, its population was 3,000 or less. Only 111 inhabitants were living on Easter Island by 1877. Other experts, however, have questioned whether Easter Island ever supported a large population, citing instead the arrival of Europeans, who brought diseases and took islanders away as slaves. Related : Ancient 4,500-year-old boat discovered in Egypt What people traditionally think about Easter Island is being this island of catastrophe and collapse just isn't true in a pre-historic sense, populations were successful and lived sustainably on Easter Island up until European contact. – Carl Lipo	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Justice Scalia once described as the peak of his days on the bench an evening at the Opera Ball when he joined two Washington National Opera tenors at the piano for a medley of songs. He called it the famous Three Tenors performance, he was, indeed, a magnificent performer. It was my great good fortune to have known him as working colleague and treasured friend. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We'll celebrate the traditional, unique and world-famous carnival much to everyone's delight like we have always done in Cologne, we have reacted to the events of New Year's Eve with specific measures. – Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There are 353 apps that offer anonymous chats (but) Dor Refaeli has a famous last name. – David Strauss	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I mean, there's the famous statement that the president made about [ISIS] being a JV team, they believed that the group would collapse under their own extreme weight, and you wouldn't have to really have to mount an effort against it. I think, of course, there's been a growing realization over the past year that more than wishes and dreams are going to be necessary in order to destroy the Islamic State, and the president is putting more muscle behind it as a consequence. – William McCants	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It's a forced disappearance. All those who have disappeared are related to the Causeway Bay bookshop and this bookshop was famous, not only for the sale, but also for the publication and circulation of a series of sensitive books. – Albert Ho	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Famous shipbuilders such as Donald Mackay referred to a certain part of his ships as having a 'forepeak'. Has anyone discovered any of his contemporaries as seeking to exceed his prowess by incorporating five, six or more 'peaks' in their ship design? – Francis M. Faber Jr.	added by WerterBuch 8 years ago
Photographers often speak of subjects in the 'foreground' of a landscape scene. Has any famous photographer ever dared to venture to refer to a five, six or more 'grounds' in one of their developments? – Francis M. Faber Jr.	added by WerterBuch 8 years ago
Did the famous shipbuilder, Donald Mackay specify as 'right' or'left' when describing the 'yardarms' on the masts of his globe-girdling China Clipper sailing ships? – Francis M. Faber Jr.	added by WerterBuch 8 years ago
Many look to Katumbi as someone who can uplift the Congo's reputation and Congolese dignity after years and years of humiliation, here's a man who's been able to make a Congolese team famous across the continent. – Jason Stearns	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We don't believe things will improve, brzeziny used to be famous for its tailors, there used to be many places to work. There are none now. Tailors are working under the table, people are picking garbage. – Mieczyslaw Cierpisz	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They feel like they have been treated with a lack of respect. That people sort of see them as these ordinary guys who accidentally got buried underground and hoped to get rich and famous off of it, and what they hope that the movie and the book will show them, will show Chile, is that they went through a war underground, that they are battled scarred. – Hector Tobar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's not the famous postcard that you normally have of Rome, there's something more intimate, and that's the portrait we like. We also think couture is more intimate because there's a relationship between the client and the atelier. It's one of a kind and the best limited edition you could have. – Maria Grazia Chiuri	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's harder to quantify it, but I've been struck by research that shows that being famous is one of this generation's most important goals, it seems like Americans are growing in their desire for fame, and there is no doubt that that there is an association between media coverage that these offenders get and the likelihood that they will act. – Adam Lankford	Found on CNN 8 years ago
She's famous! You've got to have your picture taken with someone famous before you die. – Barb Jerome	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They told me that someone famous was killed in my home, and I said, 'What? It's not like it's Jimmy Hoffa or anything?' And they turned white as sheep. – Pat Szpunar	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Kanekuni Ogawa is famous. People follow Kanekuni Ogawa literature, but because Kanekuni Ogawa passed away in 2013, the swordsmith I request is Kanekuni Ogawa son Mitsutoshi. – Shunsuke Okashita	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don’t care about being famous or any of that crap, i made a commitment to stay until ISIS is at least out of Rojava. – Michael Enright	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Even for 'Lawrence of Arabia' I didn't ask to be an international actor, when going to America and becoming famous, it gave me glory but it gave me loneliness also and a lot of missing my own land and my own people and my own family. – Omar Sharif	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

It's worthwhile for people to come and look at it because you probably won't be seeing it again in two or three year's time, it may very well be cut up into all these wonderful famous stones.

– David Bennett

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Many artists have painted what I think you can call citational art, that uses famous past images as a starting point, we see this in the first rooms of the exhibition, where artists from far afield as Japan and Brazil use Botticelli's imagery to tell stories very much of their own.

– Mark Evans

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To this day, 25 years later here in the United States or indeed around the world, people always come up to me: 'Oh I remember the Gulf War. I remember what you were doing,' they still associate me with those months of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, and it's a source of pride to me that I quote 'became famous' covering that war.

– Wolf Blitzer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The fact that a person can stand next to a famous person and go toe to toe with them, it elevates them in the public eye.

– Bruce DuMont

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Every year politicians they are trying to solve the famous Cypriot problem but now it's so many years passed and I am not so sure what will happen.

– Pavlos Kontides

Found on CNN
8 years ago

But under the conditions of warfare, weapons are going to have performance characteristics. And they're going to be very carefully fashioned for that purpose because it matters... You would cut somebody [ with a mata'a ], but they certainly wouldn't be lethal in any way. Related : Ancient Roman brooch contains' lovely' palindrome Some scientists have estimated, that, at its height, Easter Island’s population may have been as high as 20,000, but fell over centuries after the island’s trees and palms were cut down to build canoes and transport its famous giant statues. One theory suggests that the deforestation led to soil erosion, impacting the island’s ability to support wildlife and farming, and the collapse of its civilization. When the Dutch arrived at the island in 1722, its population was 3,000 or less. Only 111 inhabitants were living on Easter Island by 1877. Other experts, however, have questioned whether Easter Island ever supported a large population, citing instead the arrival of Europeans, who brought diseases and took islanders away as slaves. Related : Ancient 4,500-year-old boat discovered in Egypt What people traditionally think about Easter Island is being this island of catastrophe and collapse just isn't true in a pre-historic sense, populations were successful and lived sustainably on Easter Island up until European contact.

– Carl Lipo

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Justice Scalia once described as the peak of his days on the bench an evening at the Opera Ball when he joined two Washington National Opera tenors at the piano for a medley of songs. He called it the famous Three Tenors performance, he was, indeed, a magnificent performer. It was my great good fortune to have known him as working colleague and treasured friend.

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We'll celebrate the traditional, unique and world-famous carnival much to everyone's delight like we have always done in Cologne, we have reacted to the events of New Year's Eve with specific measures.

– Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are 353 apps that offer anonymous chats (but) Dor Refaeli has a famous last name.

– David Strauss

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I mean, there's the famous statement that the president made about [ISIS] being a JV team, they believed that the group would collapse under their own extreme weight, and you wouldn't have to really have to mount an effort against it. I think, of course, there's been a growing realization over the past year that more than wishes and dreams are going to be necessary in order to destroy the Islamic State, and the president is putting more muscle behind it as a consequence.

– William McCants

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's a forced disappearance. All those who have disappeared are related to the Causeway Bay bookshop and this bookshop was famous, not only for the sale, but also for the publication and circulation of a series of sensitive books.

– Albert Ho

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Famous shipbuilders such as Donald Mackay referred to a certain part of his ships as having a 'forepeak'. Has anyone discovered any of his contemporaries as seeking to exceed his prowess by incorporating five, six or more 'peaks' in their ship design?

– Francis M. Faber Jr.

added by WerterBuch
8 years ago

Photographers often speak of subjects in the 'foreground' of a landscape scene. Has any famous photographer ever dared to venture to refer to a five, six or more 'grounds' in one of their developments?

– Francis M. Faber Jr.

added by WerterBuch
8 years ago

Did the famous shipbuilder, Donald Mackay specify as 'right' or'left' when describing the 'yardarms' on the masts of his globe-girdling China Clipper sailing ships?

– Francis M. Faber Jr.

added by WerterBuch
8 years ago

Many look to Katumbi as someone who can uplift the Congo's reputation and Congolese dignity after years and years of humiliation, here's a man who's been able to make a Congolese team famous across the continent.

– Jason Stearns

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We don't believe things will improve, brzeziny used to be famous for its tailors, there used to be many places to work. There are none now. Tailors are working under the table, people are picking garbage.

– Mieczyslaw Cierpisz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They feel like they have been treated with a lack of respect. That people sort of see them as these ordinary guys who accidentally got buried underground and hoped to get rich and famous off of it, and what they hope that the movie and the book will show them, will show Chile, is that they went through a war underground, that they are battled scarred.

– Hector Tobar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's not the famous postcard that you normally have of Rome, there's something more intimate, and that's the portrait we like. We also think couture is more intimate because there's a relationship between the client and the atelier. It's one of a kind and the best limited edition you could have.

– Maria Grazia Chiuri

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's harder to quantify it, but I've been struck by research that shows that being famous is one of this generation's most important goals, it seems like Americans are growing in their desire for fame, and there is no doubt that that there is an association between media coverage that these offenders get and the likelihood that they will act.

– Adam Lankford

Found on CNN
8 years ago

She's famous! You've got to have your picture taken with someone famous before you die.

– Barb Jerome

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They told me that someone famous was killed in my home, and I said, 'What? It's not like it's Jimmy Hoffa or anything?' And they turned white as sheep.

– Pat Szpunar

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Kanekuni Ogawa is famous. People follow Kanekuni Ogawa literature, but because Kanekuni Ogawa passed away in 2013, the swordsmith I request is Kanekuni Ogawa son Mitsutoshi.

– Shunsuke Okashita

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I don’t care about being famous or any of that crap, i made a commitment to stay until ISIS is at least out of Rojava.

– Michael Enright

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Even for 'Lawrence of Arabia' I didn't ask to be an international actor, when going to America and becoming famous, it gave me glory but it gave me loneliness also and a lot of missing my own land and my own people and my own family.

– Omar Sharif

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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