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I did everything, I used to be a drag queen, I used to be a stripper.

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• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Good
  • She
  • Sweet

• I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Everything
  • Go
  • Doctor

• I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Long
  • School
  • Mother

• The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Office

• I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Career
  • Learning
  • Beginning

• The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Good
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Society
  • Support

• 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

• That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Impulses

• If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Gay
  • My Life

• On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Light
  • Sweet
  • See

• Shout out to my boy Guwop. We came in the game, and we learned from the best.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Game
  • Best
  • Boy

• As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Money
  • Popular

• Henneberger: If the Bible is not literally true, does that mean we don’t need to take it seriously? L'Engle: Oh no, you do, because it’s truth, not fact, and you have to take truth seriously even when it expands beyond the facts.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Truth
  • True
  • Bible

• No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Purpose

• ...self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz

• You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.

  

  Edward de Bono
  • Different

• The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Remember
  • Problem
  • Stills

• The Babylonians had known about Pythagoras’s theorem centuries before Pythagoras was born.

  

  Edith Hall
  • Theorem
  • Babylonish
  • Pythagoras

• The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Good
  • Art
  • Soul

• Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

  

  William Goldman
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Romantic

• I did everything, I used to be a drag queen, I used to be a stripper.

  

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