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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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• Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.

  

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• As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

  

  Ja Rule
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• If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

  

  Fede Alvarez
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• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• In America, music is more tightly categorized.

  

  Ednita Nazario
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• For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Balance
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• Chinese people age overnight.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
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• Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Own
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• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
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• 'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Family
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• Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Forget
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• I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

  

  Bear Bryant
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• Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • God
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  • Like

• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
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• If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.

  

  Madison Davenport
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• Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Me
  • Stop
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• Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • Goals

• When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Change

• Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Political

• For the lion to to prosper the deer must die. All the world is combat.

  

  David Gemmell
  • World
  • Die
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• I have learned to accept it, even ask for it, this 'more than I can handle.' Because in these times, God shows Himself victorious. He reminds me that all of this life requires more of Him and less of me. God does give us more than we can handle. Not maliciously, but intentionally, in love, that His glory may be displayed, that we may have no doubt of who is in control, that people may see His grace and faithfulness shining through our lives.

  

  Katie Davis
  • God
  • Learned
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• So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children.

  

  Joan Lunden
  • Women
  • Children

• My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

  

  Kelly Reilly
  • Believe
  • Family
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• Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

  

  Douglas Adams
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