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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

• The question was, whether, if the reformers of society and government could succeed in their objects, and every person in the community were free and in a state of physical comfort, the pleasures of life, being no longer kept up by struggle and privation, would cease to be pleasures.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Life
  • Up
  • Society

• Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

  

  Paul Bryant
  • Proud

• Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a level that the regime determines it is simply too great to bear, and they are forced to weigh the decision to carry on their nuclear development and their illicit quest for nuclear weapons against the ever-growing pressure from their own people.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• 'Programming' is a four-letter word.

  

  Craig Bruce

• I work during the days and have night classes on Wednesday and Thursday and live with my partner, who is in school during the days and works Wednesday through Saturday nights. Monday and Tuesday are therefore our nights, and we both get our work out of the way so we can actually spend time together.

  

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

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

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Thursday