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Et hercule quantumlibet secreta studia contulerint, est tamen proprius quidam fori profectus, alia lux, alia veri discriminis facies, plusque, si separes, usus sine doctrina quam citra usum doctrina valeat.

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• My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Children
  • Why
  • American

• Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Family
  • Truth
  • Mother

• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Change
  • Single

• I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Doing

• I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Control

• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Improve
  • Still
  • Lot

• In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Good
  • Busy

• The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Cultures
  • Argentina

• Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Long
  • Way
  • Annoying

• So many of us, we love these things that come from Japan. We play the video games every day, we read the manga, people watch the cartoons, they absolutely love it.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Play
  • Video Games

• I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Woman
  • First
  • Step

• I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Me
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Play
  • Promise
  • Said

• There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.

  

  B. B. King
  • Start
  • Street
  • Hometown

• Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.

  

  J_K_Bharavi
  • Friends
  • True
  • Words

• No soul willfully does wrong.

  

  Plato
  • Wrong
  • No Soul

• When I was a kid, 'Scooby Doo' was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I'd watch 'Scooby Doo.'

  

  Linda Cardellini
  • College

• I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

  

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth
  • Simple

• Et hercule quantumlibet secreta studia contulerint, est tamen proprius quidam fori profectus, alia lux, alia veri discriminis facies, plusque, si separes, usus sine doctrina quam citra usum doctrina valeat.

  

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