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• I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Hero

• I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Regret

• If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Unique
  • Gender
  • Spectrum

• A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Good
  • Team
  • Football

• I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Dad
  • Powerful

• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Marriage

• Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Design
  • New
  • Create

• The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Down
  • Direction
  • Spanish

• Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Up
  • Today
  • Nothing

• My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Baseball

• Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Men
  • Women
  • Day

• Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie,A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.Ask me a riddle and I reply,Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Fly
  • Bird

• I'm not real. I'm theatre.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Real
  • Theatre

• O ye men, whoever amongst you worshipped Muhammad, let him know that Muhammad is dead, and whoever amongst you worshipped Allah, let him know that Allah is Living, there is no death for Him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Men
  • Death

• Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • May
  • Past
  • Understanding

• My philosophy is to treat people how you want to be treated.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People

• Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

  

  David Suzuki
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Failure

• The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Lost

• Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Life
  • Art
  • May

• I think with improv - and I say it all the time because it's become such a catch thing that you talk about improv - if the scene is well-written, you don't need to improv. But that being said, if something strikes you in the moment and, most importantly, you know where the scene is supposed to go, it's no different than method acting.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Acting

• God has a purpose for our feelings - the good and the bad.

  

  Carolyn Mahaney
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• Language is very deceiving. In certain languages, there is certain vocabulary that doesn't exist in other languages. It totally changes how people feel about things.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • People

• Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

  

  Fred Brooks