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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • School
  • Learn
  • Example

• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Hands
  • Everything
  • Open

• All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I think that the 'Bourne Trilogy,' it's definitely redefined the genre and took it to a new level. It was really great to be part of that experience. It is a very smart movie and a very smart script, great director, and great, you know, fellow actors.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Movie

• I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Start

• Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Love
  • Better
  • Kings

• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Existence
  • Poet
  • Philosopher

• I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Myself

• Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Enemy
  • Angry
  • Army

• One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Deep

• The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Hearts
  • Big
  • July

• I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Believe
  • War
  • Hate

• We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Depend

• And yet it moves.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Moves

• When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Dance
  • Training
  • Contract

• I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Humor

• We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Commitment

• I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Wear
  • Michael
  • Stuart

• We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• Impossible for me to know whether or not I take myself seriously. The drama of detachment is that we cannot measure its progress. We advance into a desert, and we never know where we are in it.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Progress
  • Drama
  • Desert

• My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don't think that's always helpful.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Always

• I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • Up
  • Money

• Earth is going to lose its oceans in the future, just as Venus did in the past. How long planets retain their oceans is a function of distance from the sun, all other things being equal.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Long
  • Future
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