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You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

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• A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Art
  • Business
  • Focus

• When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • You
  • Decision
  • Forgive

• My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • She
  • Me
  • Play

• When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Happy
  • Energy
  • Focus

• When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Business
  • Me

• I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Fun
  • Hate
  • Successful

• People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • People
  • Looking
  • Perfection

• I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Trying
  • Career

• I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Done
  • American
  • America

• If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • School
  • Want
  • Actor

• Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Team
  • Listening
  • Year

• Don't let's go to the dogs tonight,For mother will be there.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Mother

• I believe we have this enormous brains with the ability to process so much information for a purpose – because we were made in God's image, not in the image of an amoeba.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Purpose

• Fate, I respect a lot. I never regret anything.

  

  Anita Pallenberg
  • Respect
  • Fate
  • Regret

• Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Nothing

• I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Journey
  • Bored

• Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.

  

  Bill Frist
  • Words
  • Powerful
  • Retirement

• The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • Art

• If Turkey is ready, we must begin talks. And if Croatia is ready, there too. But we can't have a quid pro quo with the fate of these countries' populations.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Fate
  • Turkey
  • Populations

• In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Human being
  • Homosexuality
  • Heterosexuality

• I have to conclude, oh, the best people are all somebody other than my own race. So that's difficult. How do we interpret the Bible? Should we stress things like justice and that God is somebody who cares about equality of all people? Or is he a God of love and a God who's there to give me an afterlife?

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Justice
  • Bible
  • Equality

• About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Long

• I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

  

  John Ridley
  • Desire

• You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

  

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