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I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.

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• If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Work
  • Long
  • Know

• I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Together
  • History

• China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• The ox suffers, the cart complains.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Suffers
  • Complains
  • Cart

• There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Nothing
  • Now
  • Without

• Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Love
  • Essential

• Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.

  

  Mae West
  • Discover
  • Only
  • Curves

• In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • True
  • Painting
  • Idea

• The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Find

• For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • World
  • American
  • Years

• Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
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  • Great
  • Business

• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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  • Values

• I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • World
  • Good
  • Job

• Elves are cool, man.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Man
  • Cool
  • Elves

• Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Need
  • Economy
  • Bank

• For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Me
  • Independent
  • Movies

• The only way to create prosperity is to do more with less. In economic terms, an increase in productivity is an increase in the amount or quality of output generated for each unit of input. Jobs do not make society wealthier - productivity does.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Society
  • Quality
  • Productivity

• I can't sing a love song Like the way it's meant to be Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore But baby, that's just me

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
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  • Song
  • Way

• And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted wounds. But I will not endlessly gaze at them. I shall allow the memories to prod me into doing better with those still living. And I shall allow them to sharpen the vision and intensify the hope for that Great Day coming when we can all throw ourselves into each other's arms and say, "I'm sorry."

  

  Nicholas Wolterstorff
  • Vision
  • Memories
  • Regret

• From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Artist
  • Vision
  • Beauty

• I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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