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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

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• We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Authority

• When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Die
  • Day
  • Myself

• D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Imagination
  • Better
  • Memory

• We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Growing
  • Magic

• It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one of the hunters or fishers whom long ago God foreshowed would come in the last days.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Long
  • Heart

• I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Will
  • Stand
  • Relevant

• Education is very important to me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Important
  • Education
  • Me

• This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

  

  Edmund Burke

• Why do wives have to spend so much time dusting, vacuuming, mopping, making beds, washing dishes, when you just have to do it all again six months later?

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Time
  • Why

• You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.

  

  Dave Ramsey

• I like to go to the beach, have a bonfire, and play music.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Music
  • Beach

• I drank too much, only champagne.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Champagne

• New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

  

  Douglas Brinkley

• My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • Parents

• Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • College

• As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.

  

  Kathryn Schulz
  • World
  • Library

• Certainly raising money is hard, and we wore the uniform of the nation so that others could become millionaires. Now we are returning to service of a different kind.

  

  Eric Massa
  • Money
  • Nation
  • Uniform

• I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • College
  • Realize

• Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Stock

• I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.

  

  Chen-Ning Yang
  • Work
  • Science
  • Proud

• Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

  

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