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I was attacked, pushed to the ground. Luckily I had my flak jacket and helmet, otherwise I probably wouldn’t even be here, because they just kept kicking me and kicking me.

— Heidi Levine, photojournalist for The Washington Post, speaking from a hospital bed after being attacked during the Abu Falah incident in the occupied West Bank.

a MUCH BETTER DEAL for America.

— Donald Trump, in a social media post, said this new arrangement was a MUCH BETTER DEAL for America, in the context of the Gordie Howe Bridge profit-sharing agreement.

I knew he was in danger because the bison didn’t leave.

— Mike MacLeod, describing his observation of the grandfather's danger during the bison attack at Bridge Bay Campground in Yellowstone

It was instinctual. No one taught me how to do it.

— Taylor Swift during her Songwriters Hall of Fame induction, describing how she writes songs

They can stop everything, but they can’t cancel spring.

— David Hockney wrote this in May 2021 to about two dozen friends to whom he sent a new painting from his tablet every day, reflecting on the resilience of spring during the pandemic.