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I do feel I'm being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with 'Mortal Kombat.'

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• If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Time
  • Career
  • Change

• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Mom

• I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Fun

• You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Help
  • Society
  • You

• Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

  

  Feist
  • Way
  • Only
  • Stamina

• The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Responsibility
  • Care
  • Seeing

• Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Serious
  • Just
  • Just Because

• As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Actor
  • Hotel

• It doesn't matter at all for me that I work in hospital or anywhere with limited space. Every day, I'm creating new works with all my might.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Work
  • Space
  • Day

• We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • World
  • Believe
  • Relax

• I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Modern
  • Old-fashioned

• I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Most

• To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Passion doesn't count the cost. … Passion is destructive.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Passion

• Consider-We are bornNot with purpose,But with potential.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Purpose

• Most of my issues that mankind sets out to settle, it never does settle… The dispute fades into the past unsolved, though perhaps it may be renewed as history and fought over again. It disappears because it is replaced by some compromise that, although not wholly acceptable to either side, offers a tolerable substitute for victory…

  

  Learned Hand
  • May
  • History
  • Past

• The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Education
  • Habit

• As a guest, Emily Price had three main drawbacks: she was incapable of saying please, incapable of saying thank you and incapable of saying sorry, all the while creating a surge in the demand for these expressions.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • She
  • Sorry

• We are captive to systems of power until we can name the dominant myths and the intricate systems of coercion and control that extinguish our freedom.

  

  Chris Hedges
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Control

• When I was 5 years old, I saw people dancing in my head. In college, I would choreograph for the cultural shows, and in my notes, I would actually create formations of people. It was how my whole brain worked.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • People
  • College
  • Brain

• When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Before 'Idol,' I was lost... Now, I've actually followed through with something. I am a better man for it!

  

  Elliott Yamin
  • Lost

• I do feel I'm being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with 'Mortal Kombat.'

  

  Mark Dacascos