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If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce.

Quvenzhane Wallis

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• As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Way
  • Books

• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Humor
  • Head
  • Tragedy

• I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • People
  • Kind
  • Opinions

• The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Win

• I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Love
  • Action
  • Like

• The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Question

• A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Opinion

• What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Time
  • War
  • Political

• Every man and every woman is a star.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Star

• There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

  

  Christine Sinclair
  • Goals

• I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't require massive amounts of resources.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Work

• We can, and must, shift to an economy in which 100% of our electricity is generated renewably.

  

  Jill Stein

• It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

  

  Bill Gurley
  • Business

• In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.

  

  James Longstreet
  • Strong

• It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

  

  John Eldredge
  • Real

• Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.

  

  Bob Kane
  • Batman

• The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • May

• But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

  

  James Joyce
  • Words
  • Running

• I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Language
  • Mouth
  • Flat

• I always say, once I get in a room, I can sell myself just fine. I know that not everyone who has a disability has the social skills or cognitive skills that I do, and it may be harder for them to navigate through.

  

  Zach Anner
  • May
  • Skills
  • Rooms

• Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Pleasure
  • Fierce

• Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Live

• If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Fierce