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Ames parentem, si aequus est, si aliter, feras.

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• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Best
  • Expectation

• There's more to life than cheek bones.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • More
  • Bones

• Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Win
  • Champion

• When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Live
  • Questions

• Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • You
  • Wall

• Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Nice
  • Like
  • Kid

• The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Stage
  • Laws
  • Both

• I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Tired
  • Weakness
  • Boils

• When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Children
  • Education
  • Community

• Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • City
  • Government
  • Rest

• When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Women
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Age
  • Parents
  • College

• First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Armed men don’t sit down and talk.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men

• The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation, and the first step towards co-operation lies in the hearts of individuals.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Lies

• Nazism (national Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Waiting
  • Birth
  • Activity

• I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Week

• I think, in the past, being brave - being powerful, being strong - were qualities that people associated with being masculine. And I think... no, I don't think - I know that now we're realizing they can be feminine, too.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • People
  • Past
  • Strong

• Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Good
  • Family
  • Game

• First impressions matter. Most people don't change their political views radically from the ones they first hold.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • People
  • Political

• Ames parentem, si aequus est, si aliter, feras.

  

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