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I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it.

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• In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.

  

  Hans Adolf Krebs
  • Great
  • Study
  • Progress

• I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Record
  • Boring

• When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Man

• I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Acting
  • Times
  • Seriously

• Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Hope
  • See
  • Author

• I lost the ball in the moon.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Lost
  • Moon
  • Ball

• The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • America
  • Look

• Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

  

  Larry Niven
  • Long
  • Know
  • Doing

• You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Game
  • Basketball
  • Down

• One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Reality
  • Know
  • Talking

• Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Business
  • Experience

• Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Art
  • Opportunity

• My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Down

• People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I think I've made some choices that maybe I wasn't so sure about for some reason or another. But I'm one of the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that's a role people wait for their whole lifetime.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Choices
  • Bird

• I tried putting teabags under my eyes because they say that the green tea - the caffeine - will help with under-eye bags and moisture. It worked! That's a new tip.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Help
  • Eyes
  • Green

• Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Team
  • Acting

• Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't.

  

  Aneel Bhusri
  • Business
  • Small

• One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Important
  • Success
  • Habit

• The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issues not from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Desire

• When you are the kid of an actor, it's always a very inviting world. Everyone is nice to you, the hair and make-up people braid your hair and play with you, and the costume department makes outfits for your teddy bears.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it.

  

  Elliot Page