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• And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Trying
  • Character
  • High

• My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Mother
  • Democrat
  • Southern

• For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Entrepreneur
  • Ever
  • Dare

• The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Art

• The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Day
  • Expectations
  • Birthday

• I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • God
  • Done
  • Why

• You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Interesting

• After seven years of marriage,He wanted out.Now after seven months of freedom,It's clear that there's no doubt.She's gonna make it,And he never will.He's at the foot of the mountain,And she's over that hill.He's sinkin' at sea,And her sails are filled.She's gonna make it,And he never will.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • She
  • Freedom
  • Marriage

• Five of the above rules are of absolute necessity, and cannot be dispensed with without essential defect and often without error.

  

  Blaise Pascal

• It did take a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, and I think it might take another one to clean up after the second Bush.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Up

• In Hollywood, you just kind of fail upwards.

  

  Kevin Smith

• The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

  

  Alan Kay
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.

  

  Learned Hand
  • True

• Far away I've travelledTo stand once more alone.And hear my memories echoThrough these hills that I call home.As a child I roamed this valley,I watched the seasons come and go.I spent many hours dreamingOn these hills that I call home.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Memories

• I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Song
  • Grandma

• That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Support

• It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Apocalyptic moments
  • Interface stuff

• I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • Music

• It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Running
  • Attitude
  • Laughing

• Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Nothing
  • Venture
  • Gained

• In sterculino plurimum gallus potest.

  

  Publilius Syrus