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When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

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• The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Man
  • Best
  • Doubt

• Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Long
  • Live
  • Doubt

• I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Relax

• What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Song
  • Single

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Hard Work

• As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Home
  • Job

• The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Song
  • Start

• Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Talk
  • News
  • Radio

• Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Character
  • Change
  • Moment

• I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• It's like, backstage at 'SNL,' like, if you come back after a show or something, or a lot of times even at the after-parties, we're just pretty tired and like, 'Hey, what's up.' Just getting a drink and kind of chilling out. Nothing crazy.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

  

  Victor Hugo

• When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

  

  Ouida
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friends

• We'll never forget you, Mary Poppins!

  

  P. L. Travers

• As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Science

• 'Humans of New York' is basically somebody walking up to absolute strangers on the street every day and, within minutes, talking with them about very personal things. Some things they haven't even told their best friends or family members.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • Death
  • Thought

• Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others.

  

  Alexandra Stoddard
  • Beliefs
  • Justify
  • Have To

• When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

  

  Chubby Checker
  • Humble