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• I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Competition

• In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Effort
  • Progress
  • Will

• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • God
  • Religion
  • Insult

• What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Love
  • Characters
  • Films

• It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • True
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Thing

• He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.

  

  Pat Cash
  • Time
  • Athlete
  • Just

• Well, I'm an independent person.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Person
  • Independent
  • Well

• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Through

• I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Me
  • Fight
  • Down

• We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

  

  Carl Jung
  • World
  • Truth
  • Intelligence

• When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had opened in Ireland, and I wanted to go because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I wanted to turn my life around.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Life
  • School
  • My Life

• I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Relationship
  • Myself
  • Drama

• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Career
  • Flower

• Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Year
  • Security
  • Top

• I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Hate
  • Nervous

• Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Myself

• I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Movie
  • Superhero
  • Martial Arts

• Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Home
  • Power
  • America

• I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Drug
  • Addiction
  • Video Games

• Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green flies of the usual off the tablecloth. To pay attention.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Habits
  • Tablecloth
  • Forrest Gande

• I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems.

  

  Donald M. Payne
  • Believe

• If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Artist
  • Musician

• Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!

  

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