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If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Myself
  • Feel
  • One Word

• When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Real
  • Say
  • Stand

• All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Genius
  • Chaos
  • Mystery

• I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Know

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Wish
  • Myself

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

  

  Walid Muallem
  • Good
  • Think
  • Secretary

• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Sea
  • Calm

• It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Imagination
  • Better
  • Memory

• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Doing
  • Need

• If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Now
  • Smoke

• Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Past

• There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Because
  • Then
  • Were

• I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Reason
  • Care
  • Things

• The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Book
  • Think
  • Laugh

• The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

  

  George C. Williams
  • Simple
  • Doubt

• I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• My goal was always to be working on the biggest stage in the world: Hollywood. Even when I was doing 'The Bill,' I approached the work like it was a Hollywood classic such as 'Training Day' or 'Boyz n the Hood.' So to have worked with some of the greats I've admired, such as Forest Whitaker, Kathy Bates, Cuba Gooding Jr., etc., it warms me.

  

  Aml Ameen
  • World
  • Work
  • Training

• If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

  

  China Chow
  • Work