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• You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Universe

• I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.

  

  Sam Reed
  • Hope
  • Politics
  • Moderation

• The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Information
  • Public
  • Almost

• In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Car
  • Summer
  • Heat

• Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Art
  • You

• It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Think
  • Working

• The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.

  

  Gary Numan
  • You
  • Me
  • Idea

• I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Hate

• Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Everyone
  • Measure
  • Paper

• We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Party
  • Justice
  • Win

• There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Difficult
  • Nothing
  • Define

• People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Friendly

• If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • President
  • Fly

• I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Horse

• I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Character
  • Singing
  • English

• Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Time
  • Job
  • Salary

• Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Up
  • You
  • Acting

• Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.

  

  Umar
  • Wisdom
  • Prayer
  • Looks

• There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire: in a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.

  

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
  • Art
  • Science
  • Nations

• Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

  

  Chris Cavanaugh
  • People
  • Stories
  • Meaning

• Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Up
  • Happy

• The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Stories
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