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There's nothing wrong with being honest about what you are.

Brandon Victor Dixon

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• This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Moving
  • Successful
  • Playing

• In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Character
  • History
  • Death

• I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Popular

• A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Tied
  • Likely

• The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • World
  • Bigger
  • Thrill

• Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Opinion
  • Popular
  • Diversity

• I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Great
  • Me
  • Drama

• The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Music
  • American
  • Influence

• Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • Music
  • Heart

• Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • God
  • Weird
  • Thank God

• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • History
  • Future
  • Change

• Make health care a right, not a privilege.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Health
  • Care
  • Privilege

• We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Space
  • Search
  • Advertising

• I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Party
  • Vote
  • Line

• That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • World
  • Education
  • College

• I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Think
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Always

• I hope to show the great worth of women. So far as I'm concerned, we're still underappreciated.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Great
  • Women
  • Hope

• I don't believe in legacy. I feel that the 'mega' tag definitely acts as a platform, but after that, it's all on the individual. Legacy does not mean a crown that is passed on; we have to create our own paths.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Believe
  • Legacy

• Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

  

  Nicholas Meyer
  • Life
  • Art
  • Teach

• States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate

  

  W. J. T. Mitchell
  • Writing
  • Form
  • Inseparable

• There's nothing wrong with being honest about what you are.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon