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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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  • Remember

• I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
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  • Film
  • Enough

• I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
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• I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.

  

  Olly Murs
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• I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

  

  Pat Paulsen
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• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
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• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
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• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
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• I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.

  

  Iman
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• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
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• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
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  • Heart

• Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

  

  Dan Ariely
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• When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.

  

  Dane DeHaan
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• I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

  

  J. Cole
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• People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
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• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
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  • Children

• Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

  

  Aaron Stanford
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  • Story
  • I Can

• You have the ability to write melodies and to put lyrics that mean something: to speak about life and what people are going through in their every day ups and downs, the good times and the bad times. Country music has always talked about life, I think; that's what I've always loved about it.

  

  Jimi Westbrook Little Big Town
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• I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

  

  David Bolinsky
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• I was born and raised in China, Mandarin is my first language, and I definitely know America. I think that will be my strength, to try and bring the two worlds together.

  

  Chloe Zhao
  • America
  • Together

• That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

  

  William Hazlitt
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  • Self
  • Cease

• Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

  

  Matt Berninger The National
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