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• When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Me
  • Games

• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Brain
  • Start
  • You Can Do It

• If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Best

• The higher your station, the less your liberty.

  

  Sallust
  • Liberty
  • Higher
  • Less

• The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Light
  • Like
  • Spiritual

• Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Many
  • Did
  • Follower

• I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Family
  • Job

• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Career
  • Acting
  • Aesthetic

• Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Violence

• If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Writing
  • You
  • Rock

• 'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Me
  • First

• Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Kind
  • Creative
  • Special

• I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Career
  • Change
  • Speak

• I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Christian
  • Struggle

• If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Think
  • Me
  • Crazy

• My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Experience
  • Film
  • First

• I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.

  

  Pim Fortuyn
  • Family
  • Society
  • Responsibility

• Actually, when I'm not filming a movie, my beauty approach is really natural - I prefer a bare face that looks really healthy and dewy.

  

  Eva Green
  • Movie
  • Beauty
  • Healthy

• Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Learning
  • Flying