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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

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• I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Love
  • Best

• I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Different
  • Love
  • Think

• I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Up
  • Good
  • American

• People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • River
  • Tea
  • Revenge

• When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Up
  • God
  • Day

• You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • You
  • Know
  • Born

• In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Summer
  • Year
  • Winter

• I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • World
  • Small
  • Rest

• When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Thinking
  • Reaction
  • Fragrance

• I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.

  

  Cam
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Society

• What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

  

  Mack McLarty
  • House
  • Italian
  • White

• If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • You
  • Someone
  • Sweetness

• Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Evil
  • Ambition
  • Fame

• The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Change
  • Celebrity

• You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Storm

• A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • Women
  • Today

• I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • Song
  • Singing

• Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Nature

• They can call or e-mail, too, but I'd rather see the bug.

  

  Carl E. Olson
  • Mail
  • Bugs

• One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

  

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