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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.

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• Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Survive
  • Dress
  • To Survive

• I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Performer
  • Hyper
  • Nelly

• A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Society
  • Support
  • Now

• As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Want
  • Conflict
  • Solution

• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Know

• Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Peace
  • Problem
  • Product

• Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

  

  Florence King
  • Always
  • Nothing
  • Say

• Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Writing
  • Understand
  • Writer

• Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Focused
  • Often
  • North

• I wouldn't mind an original letter from Napoleon to Josephine - in the early days, his letters arrived torn to pieces because he was overwhelmed by his passion for her.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Mind
  • Passion
  • Early

• The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real for everyone. I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Reality

• If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • History
  • Look

• More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • City
  • Fly

• A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Questions

• We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • History
  • True
  • Past

• All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Political

• Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me – it was actually my first instrument.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Point
  • Instrument

• The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any.

  

  B. B. Warfield
  • God
  • Guilty

• When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees Lift burdened branches, stilled with ecstasies. When music sounds, out of the water rise Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes, Rapt in strange dream burns each enchanted face, With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place. When music sounds, all that I was I am Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came; And from Time's woods break into distant song The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Time
  • Music
  • Song

• I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Audience

• I think we made out sexuality changing. I think that's really great, and we didn't jump into intercourse. And there were no blow jobs.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Thinking
  • Blow
  • Sexuality

• I have to show up and do my job every day; that's my focus.

  

  Ashlyn Harris
  • Job
  • Focus
  • Show Up

• Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.

  

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