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Oh, I don't have any fans. Personally? I don't have any.

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• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • God

• Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Like
  • Person
  • Choice

• Any powerful technology can be abused.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Powerful
  • Any

• At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Science
  • Engineering

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • History
  • Political
  • Dark

• Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • School
  • Book
  • High

• Normally, the law of nature is such that one who rises falls, and one who rises quickly falls as quickly. I don't know how the law of nature will work as far as Modi is concerned. But some time or the other, all bubbles burst. This bubble will also burst.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature

• We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Enough
  • Act
  • Educated

• In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Up
  • Different
  • Kind

• The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented – and with a mature sense of the sacred – in Buddhism and Hinduism.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Method
  • Buddhism
  • Followers

• I'm always trying to find the balance between diet and fitness that will make my brain function at its optimum. What I discovered works for me is no refined sugars, processed foods, wheat, and dairy - that's when I'm functioning at my best.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Trying
  • Brain
  • Balance

• I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Time
  • Effort

• You're always carrying something that's interfering. It's like static noise that doesn't have to be there, and you have to school yourself to clean that out.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • School

• I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Real

• I'd like to know how to play the guitar.

  

  Mario Vazquez

• I should say I am not much of a gamer - anymore. The reason for this is that I have to make a living, and my body requires vitamin D, and I've come to value the heady pleasures of human interaction over the temporary exhilaration of reaching the 'next level.'

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Value

• First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

  

  Dennis Kucinich

• I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Good
  • Work

• My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.

  

  Elizabeth Reaser
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Career

• Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Weakness
  • Weapon
  • Wield

• The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.

  

  Eric Liu
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Black

• I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is 'beat the heat.' It's always July under the lights.

  

  Bob Weir Grateful Dead
  • Game

• Oh, I don't have any fans. Personally? I don't have any.

  

  Portia de Rossi