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• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Green
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • People
  • Party
  • Serious

• Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sun

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Me
  • Lost
  • Paris

• Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Experience
  • War
  • Piece

• Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Business
  • Calm
  • Too Late

• I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Way
  • Person
  • Option

• It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It's exhausting. You have to force-feed. You have to force yourself to eat food.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Food
  • Yourself

• Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Work
  • Worry
  • Frustration

• I hate the word sexy.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Hate
  • Sexy
  • Word

• There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Movie
  • Wise
  • Everything

• I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Live
  • Drama
  • Enthusiasm

• The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Man
  • Listening
  • Period

• I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Doing

• I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Watching

• I didn't have a very religious family.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Family
  • Religious
  • Very

• Fuzzy logic is a logic whose distinguishing features are (i) fuzzy truth-values expressed in linguistic terms, e.g., true, very true, more or less true, or somewhat true, false, nor very true and not very false, etc2.; (2) imprecise truth tables; and (3) rules of inference whose validity is relative to a context rather than exact.

  

  Logic
  • Truth
  • True
  • Logic

• If our love were but more simple,We should take Him at His word;And our lives would be all sunshineIn the sweetness of the Lord.

  

  Frederick William Faber
  • Simple

• My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.

  

  Brian Herbert
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Dad

• Coming where I'm coming from, really, my family name isn't a pressure because, you know, music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Music
  • Family

• A leader must realize his subordinate leaders will be killed or wounded. He must prepare and train other leaders to step up and take over. He, himself, must train his next-in-line to take command in event he is killed, wounded, or evacuated.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Leader

• For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

  

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