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• I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • People
  • Feel
  • Better

• Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Matter
  • Egg
  • Duck

• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Reflect

• We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Health

• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • New

• If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Play
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • I Believe

• I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Same

• I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

  

  Flume
  • Myself
  • Big
  • Push

• You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • People
  • Up
  • Morning

• I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.

  

  J. August Richards
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Energy
  • Same

• The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Luck

• He that is rich is wise.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Wise
  • Rich
  • He

• Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Like
  • Check

• The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Hand

• Most police work boils down to minimizing the impact on society of stupidity; of the remainder, the overwhelming majority is about malice and deliberate evil, but it’s still almost all stupid.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Work
  • Society
  • Evil

• I used to be a pop singer; well, not used to be. I am an R&B singer. My emphasis was on Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin.

  

  Keala Settle
  • Wonder

• Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

  

  Warren G. Bennis
  • Beauty
  • Leadership
  • Knows

• Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Power
  • Attention

• You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Live
  • Map
  • Syracuse

• I started with nothing. Less than nothing.

  

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