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This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

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• I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Great
  • Dangerous
  • Artists

• People are incredible creatures of habit.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Habit
  • Creatures

• Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Funny

• A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • Time
  • World
  • Truth

• If you transmit the rays of the sun through a hole in the shape of a star you will see a beautiful effect of perspective in the spot where the sun's rays fall.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Beautiful
  • Fall
  • Star

• Maker is extremely proactive and creative with their talent. They seem to have mastered the difficult task of giving attention to their smaller, growing channels while still being able to add value to their larger established channels - plus, with this partnership, I am one step closer to becoming a Disney princess!

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Giving
  • Growing
  • Attention

• 'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

  

  Dave Sim
  • Work

• I can give you a 'Selfish,' and I can still come give you, like, a 'Jealous.' I'm coming from the streets, but I can still give you personal situations and relationships that I've been in with females. You just never know; I'm just coming different.

  

  Rakim Hasheem Allen
  • Different
  • Selfish

• Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Time
  • Friend

• I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.

  

  Burn Gorman
  • Character
  • Pretty

• Paying interest on reserve balances enables the Fed to break the strong link between the quantity of reserves and the level of the federal funds rate and, in turn, allows the Federal Reserve to control short-term interest rates when reserves are plentiful.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Strong
  • Control

• Never say never, but I don't think I'll ever get Botox because we don't know the long-term side effects, and I just don't think that can be good for you.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Good
  • Long

• With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.

  

  Charles Kennedy

• If I don't do high-intensity interval training classes for an hour every morning and yoga a few days a week, I get depressed.

  

  Davinia Taylor
  • High
  • Morning
  • Training

• I think my blood is actually khaki. The khaki is a part of me. It's in my heart.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Heart

• You can never have enough reinforcements, resources for black women to thrive in the world. The topic has been addressed a million times before, but it will never end because what we're up against keeps morphing, and we have to figure out how to beat it.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• I'd really like to do a movie, either as a producer or director. My ultimate fantasy would be to direct a movie and produce the entire soundtrack. I don't really see myself acting.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • Movie

• Many of the people I know and that you know are very complex human beings, and it's not all about race. Everything isn't a question of race. Everything isn't a question of economics at the very base level.

  

  Lynn Whitfield
  • People
  • Question

• I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

  

  Asghar Farhadi

• Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • People

• I will do nothing to superinduce sleep by putting myself at ease, or making myself more comfortable; if, however, in spite of my resistance I yield to my infirmity, then I deserve to be laughed at, and accept as punishment the mortification I feel.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Myself
  • Sleep
  • Accept

• With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Day
  • Dance
  • Sunday

• Usually with something like 'The 100,' because you're working so much and every day, and they'll change the drafts quite quickly, we'll go through maybe, like, 12 different versions of the same scene over a week. So there is no point in learning it on a Tuesday when on a Thursday it might be completely different.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
  • Different
  • Learning
  • Thursday

• This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Thursday