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In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

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• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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  • Education
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• Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
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• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
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• I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.

  

  Francesco Totti
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• I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
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• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
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• Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

  

  Ma Jian
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• In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• I pick up on other people's discomfort.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

  

  Nadine Labaki
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• I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

  

  T. D. Jakes
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• Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
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  • Baseball
  • Take Care

• I really loved working with Michael Caine. He's a really skilled and experienced actor. I learn something from everybody, but when you work with somebody like that, you actually learn things you can put in your toolbox, things about craft. Not necessarily life lessons, but actual things he knows that you can pick up.

  

  Bruce McGill
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• I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

  

  Beverly Cleary
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• Our federal resources, our U.S. marshals, and the federal court system are being used, I think, by the private sector.

  

  Gene Green

• I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

  

  Patricia Polacco
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• I like L.A. because of the light. The light makes me feel so good. It's really beautiful. And there's something about L.A. being so spread out that gives you a feeling of freedom. Light and freedom.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
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• In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
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