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I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.

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• When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Team
  • Worry
  • Learn

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Experience
  • Free
  • Desire

• Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Freedom

• Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • City
  • Place
  • Mental

• I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Best
  • Doubt
  • Tough

• It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Blow

• If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• Kadar died as a mass killer, and the Hungarian nation can't forget that.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Forget
  • Nation
  • Hungarian

• Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Enjoy

• In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Business
  • Leadership

• Long hours of labour seem to be the secret of the rational and healthful processes, which are to raise the condition of the labourer by an improvement of his mental and moral powers and to make a rational consumer out of him.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long
  • Moral
  • Improvement

• As truly as the mystic, the scientist is following a light; and it is not a false or an inferior light.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Light

• The point of having nuclear weapons is to deter a war of any kind. They have succeeded in doing so for the past 37 years. To be an effective deterrent a potential aggressor must believe that under certain circumstances such weapons will be used.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Believe
  • War
  • Past

• The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?

  

  James Hillman
  • World
  • Children
  • Home

• I don't just buy a dress because it's pretty - it has to be evocative of a mood, a character I want to take on.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Mood

• For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Men
  • Character

• Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Superman
  • Nobody
  • Anyone

• No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Real
  • Past

• The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Happiness
  • Paradise
  • Superman

• I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.

  

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