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I'd like to be very wise.

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• I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Different
  • Words
  • Years

• I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
  • Want
  • Start

• I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Nice
  • Found
  • Hiking

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Long
  • Funny
  • Progress

• My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Writing
  • America

• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Business
  • Fire

• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Mother
  • Boy
  • Bring

• True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • True
  • Direction

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much centralization. But really, our goals should be to eliminate and overcome these central institutions. And in recent years we have gained powerful new tools to do this, and most significant among those is the block chain, which is the software behind Bitcoin.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Powerful
  • Wall
  • Goals

• I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • People
  • Great
  • Education

• Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Mind
  • Soul

• The whole thing with VR is that it doesn't matter, local versus networked gaming. The goal in virtual reality isn't to have people sit in the same room with headsets on.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Reality
  • Goal

• Your happiness depends on you alone.

  

  Aristotle
  • Alone
  • Happiness
  • Depends

• When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Great
  • Sun
  • Romantic

• She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Foolish

• The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Friend

• Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Great
  • Long
  • Trying

• I'd like to be very wise.

  

  Duffy
  • Wise