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I think I was quite daring. I was once escorted out of a restaurant because I was wearing a trouser suit. It wasn`t considered good breeding for a woman to go around in trousers after 6pm, especially in smart restaurants and bars such as the Connaught hotel, which served the best cocktails.

- Diana Rigg

"The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it."

- Alice Cooper

It`s a place of solace. I love London, it`s an amazing city. I`ve met some wonderful people there and I also have some family there. I`m from New York, so I feel very at home in London. It`s like a metropolitan breeding ground for culture, art, music and diversity. It`s a beautiful city, with beautiful history. In Hollywood, it`s hard to step outside of the circle once you`re in it. But in London I was really moved by how accepted I felt there. There was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses!

- Scarlett Johansson

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!

- Joschka Fischer

(Referring to his successful Atlanta-based dog breeding business, Big Boi explained the name of the label:) My `Purple Ribbon` dogs have a strong blood line that goes back three generations. I want to put out potent funk music. Purple Ribbon is gonna be so strong you can smell it. ... This is a Big Boi thang, not an OutKast thang. I`m doing films, but music is my first love.

- Big Boi
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Sides are being divided now. It`s very obvious. So if you`re on the other side of the fence, you`re suddenly anti-American. It`s breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

- Sam Shepard

Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

- Rod Parsley

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.

- Chris LeDoux

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

- Adam Schiff

We`re already planning for 2006. So much work goes into the event and while it`s over fairly quickly, it`s an important event for Canadian breeders to showcase their breeding stock and their youngsters. They are, after all, our future sport horse competitors.

- Shannon Smith

One of the features of our annual meeting is that all the members gather in person to have face-to-face discussions about such subjects as breeding policies, canine health issues and testing programs. For example, we have discussed the prospects of including the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association`s `utility test` to go along with the `natural ability` test we already now use in qualifying our dogs for our club`s breeding program. Likewise, there have been some useful debates on how to sanction any breeders who have dogs with serious genetic defects.

- Tom McDonald

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can`t buy it. You can`t buy class.

- Anne Perry

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

- Aaron Browning

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

- Aaron Capps

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

- Akitsugu Bando

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

- Alex Hamilton

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

- Alfred Kugal

When you do classical breeding, you cluster for hundreds of genes in a plant that allow it to be resistant to a particular insect.

- Ali Rahnema

What`s different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That`s what makes it both powerful and exciting.

- Ali Rahnema

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

- Alvaro Cifuentes

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

- Aly Byorick

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

- Aly Byorick

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

- Andrew Harvey

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

- Andrew Shao

Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.

- Andrew Stotz

The goal of this project is to capture as much of the original genetic diversity as possible by including many areas in the ongoing breeding program being conducted by the ACF.

- Aristide Briand

Volunteering is one of the greatest experiences you can ever have at the festival. It`s the ultimate breeding ground of opportunity for all those interested in the arts, education, entertainment, film, music and event production fields. Whether you`re here just to have some fun this summer or if you really want to explore career opportunities, it`s all here, including the work experience and the networking with successful professionals, executives and Hollywood icons.

- Art Bowen

The English take the breeding of their horses and dogs more seriously than they do their children.

- Avi Weinreb

The birds tend to be more vocal and active because they`re coming into breeding season and it`s much easier to see.

- Barbara Schneeman