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

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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

• I hold no dream of fortune vast,Nor seek undying fame.I do not ask when life is pastThat many know my name.I may not own the skill to riseTo glory's topmost height,Nor win a place among the wise,But I can keep the right.And I can live my life on earthContented to the end,If but a few shall know my worthAnd proudly call me friend.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Life
  • Live
  • May

• Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that imposedInfinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loosedFrom breasts heroic, sent them far to that invisible caveThat no light comforts, and their limbs to dogs and vultures gave;To all which Jove's will gave effect; from whom first strife begunBetwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' godlike son.

  

  George Chapman
  • Men
  • Light
  • Son

• The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Human
  • Animals
  • Indifference

• Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • Style
  • Fierce
  • Grammar

• Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop circles that against these representation. You can hear this message on tons of lyrics and rap songs produced by independent emcees. But they are fighting against a well-oiled and well-financed machine.

  

  Bakari Kitwana
  • Song
  • Fighting
  • Independent

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

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Fierce